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Rattner says his friend Michael Bloomberg realizes "nobody has ever really gotten anywhere in the third party business" http://j.mp/dias8F
Michael Bloomberg and Third Party Dreams – Swampland – TIME.com
Thomas Friedman’s Sunday Times column about the prospects for a third-party candidate has drawn a good deal of blogospheric scoffing, but Nate Silver says not so fast–that the scenario is more …
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MSNBC’s Ed Schultz doesn’t understand rounding error in survey results http://j.mp/9yCU7x
Daily Howler: If we want to survive Davis Guggenheim’s film, we should do eight or nine thingsPrint view: If we want to survive Davis Guggenheim’s film, we should do eight or nine things
Routinely, if it weren’t for the mis-information, we wouldn’t have any ”information” at all!
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GOP has made a comeback w/o moving to the center — another example of the overstated electoral importance of centrism http://j.mp/bm1PYu
101005_pol_frumtnHow conservative critics of conservatism are explaining the conservative comeback. – By David Weigel – Slate Magazine
The Great Recession has done wonders for the Republican Party. Two years after being tossed out of power at every level, it’s about to waltz right back in, kicking aside the corpses of Democrats…
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Cognitive dissonance alert: Romney backers in ’08 who now oppose health care reform http://j.mp/9ckhVS Chait may be right that he is doomed
Romney Deathwatch, Continued | The New Republic
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Charming: "Limbaugh’s been calling the president ‘Imam Obama’ for several months now." http://j.mp/9i0oG6
Limbaugh Calls President Obama a ‘Jackass’ – Political Punch
Derision of the president on his program is nothing new, but Rush Limbaugh’s tone today may have struck the ears of regular listeners as particularly disdainful, taking his contempt of the presi…