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IPS fellow parrots the "HCR opponents lost more" claim http://j.mp/bzulKe See http://j.mp/9W311z for why this context-free analysis is wrong
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 Karen Dolan: Buck up, Progressives — We WON! Part 1The though the Congressional Progressive Caucus emerged virtually unscathed from yesterday's election, the conservative Blue Dog Democratic Caucus lost more than half its members. Dead weigh… |
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| Beware context-free election analysis – Brendan Nyhan Since the polls closed on Tuesday night, we’ve seen a rash of context-free analyses of the election results. Just as some commentators have interpreted the GOP’s 60+ seat pickup as purely a back… |
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Interesting – Bush supports redistricting reform http://j.mp/bVO9dl
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| NationalJournal.com – Under-the-Radar Highlights From Bush’s New Memoir – Tuesday, November 9, 2010 National Journal delivers the latest political news and analysis. The tight lid that was kept on former President George W. Bush’s new memoir, Decision Points , fueled enough speculation and h… |
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RT @mattyglesias In WaPo, clothes make the woman: http://ygl.as/cBO6gd // WP Style section & its progeny are a blight: http://j.mp/aD3brj
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| In the Washington Post, clothes make the woman – Amanda Hess | TBD.com Women, dressed in various items of clothing, do stuff. |
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| Robin Givhan constructs “Elena Kagan” – Brendan Nyhan As I’ve written before, the Washington Post Style section helped create the snark-filled, mind-reading style of narrative writing that has infected political journalism. One of its stars is Robi… |
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Hillary’s underrated sense of humor – Q: "Are you a collector of chips?" HRC: "I am an eater of chips." http://j.mp/dDau5K (via @ezraklein)
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| In Australia, Clinton takes it easy | POLITICO 44 POLITICO44 is a new and innovative way to cover the Obama presidency, minute-by-minute. Powered by the largest White House staff around, it will be the go-to place for news and analysis about th… |
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RT @thegoldfarb: great message for 3d party Bloomberg: New Congress full of illiterates who cant find China on a map http://politi.co/djBWvj
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 Bloomberg: The people we elected to Congress ‘can’t read’ – Maggie Haberman – POLITICO.comVia Katzblog and Kate Lucadamo, Mayor Bloomberg made two interesting comments while doing an interview with the Wall Street Journal from Hong Kong, where he’s traveling in his new role as head o… |
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#economymatters RT @daveweigel At this point in 1984/1996 cycles, Reagan was trailing Glenn, Clinton trailing Dole. http://slate.me/bq5dOP
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| Weigel : Memoirs of the John Glenn Presidency I see that the speculation over which Republican can take out Barack Obama in 2012 has already begun. Here are two pieces of literature to consider before analyzing that. First, Richard J. Catta… |
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Nice article about research by my future Dartmouth colleagues on "Leapfrog Representation and Extremism" in Congress http://j.mp/boUxc9
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| Voters in the Middle See Representatives Leapfrog to Edges | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune. Researchers discover that politicians in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have more extreme voting records than their median voters in their districts or even their parties. |
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Excellent phrase, Brooke Gladstone! She wants "reporting that is undistorted by attempts to appear objective." http://jr.ly/5ray (last :45)
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| On The Media: Transcript of “Journalists as People” (November 5, 2010) | ||
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Personality-based explanations will not die! RT @mattyglesias Democratic whiners and hand-wringers nailed by @kdrum: http://ygl.as/cweH8O
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| The Circular Firing Squad | Mother Jones | ||
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Andrew Gelman: "Exit polls claim deficit a top priority; why that’s wrong" http://j.mp/dDuJT8
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| The Monkey Cage: Exit polls claim deficit a top priority; why that’s wrong | ||
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RT @normative Can’t NYT put C.Blow back on those op-art charts? He was actually sorta good at that. This stuff is painful http://j.mp/bLhsp7
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RT @kdrum Tired of hearing how great Clinton was at talking to regular folks. Makes big difference if … incomes are rising.
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.@bshor flags new GOP moderates http://j.mp/bub2ys but Adam Bonica estimates new House will be most polarized ever http://j.mp/ap4alI
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| The New Winning Republican Moderates in the House « Boris Shor, PhD | ||
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| The ego factor: Can Obama change? – POLITICO.com Print View POLITICO covers political news with a focus on national politics, Congress, Capitol Hill, the 2008 presidential race, lobbying, advocacy, and more. POLITICO’s in-depth coverage includes video f… |
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Andrew Gelman’s take on what might have happened in the 2010 election http://j.mp/ccSvwN
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| 2010: What happened? – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science | ||
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