Month: December 2010
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Dec 14, 2010 at 12:46pm From my Twitter feed (12/9-12/14) BrendanNyhan Dec 14, 2010 at 3:58am Bogus @mattbai claims that Bloomberg *benefits* by not having party backing http://j.mp/eJaSNA Tell that to the other 3P winners… oh wait BrendanNyhan Dec 14, 2010 at 12:34pm Besides silly Bloomberg hype, @mattbai article also reflects a deep
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Why isn’t Obama telling the left to blame Senate rules?
The simplest explanation for Barack Obama’s problems with his base is the Senate. While many on the left are unhappy with the President’s foreign policy and anti-terrorism policies, the vast majority of liberal discontent has resulted from domestic policy compromises necessitated by Senate rules — in particular, the size of the first stimulus, the death
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Dec 9, 2010 at 4:32pm From my Twitter feed (12/6-12/9) BrendanNyhan Dec 9, 2010 at 2:22pm The ethical and political challenges of randomized trials http://j.mp/eADVU9 Unfortunately, they’re still the best option for policy evals BrendanNyhan Dec 9, 2010 at 1:27pm Yet another story suggesting Obama needs to win the center to get re-elected
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Little David Axelrods oversimplify tax cut politics
These days, everyone’s a strategist. The tactics-obsessed media/blog ecosystem has created an army of little David Axelrods who are convinced that they have the (imaginary) solution to President Obama’s problems. The second segment of the pre-election episode of This American Life, for instance, consists entirely of writer Jack Hitt blaming the party’s problems on poor
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MSU talk tomorrow
For those who are interested, I’ll be speaking about misperceptions from 12-1 PM tomorrow at the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University — the talk flyer (PDF) has more details.
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Dec 6, 2010 at 5:07pm From my Twitter feed (12/3-12/6) BrendanNyhan Dec 6, 2010 at 3:45pm Pelosi: UI "helps reduce the deficit" http://j.mp/ekArKg What’s the evidence? GDP multiplier >1 doesn’t mean net budget effect is positive. BrendanNyhan Dec 6, 2010 at 2:13pm UGA’s Keith Poole illustrates how the Senate votes on extending the
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Dec 3, 2010 at 3:01pm From my Twitter feed (11/30-12/3) ModeledBehavior Dec 3, 2010 at 12:35pm Really wanted to tweet "Here’s a great Charles Blow column!" just once. Even though I agree w/ him, as always the argument is weak and lazy ModeledBehavior Dec 3, 2010 at 12:36pm Here is it btw http://nyti.ms/fm4bQF
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Presidential challengers usually seem flawed
The Daily Beast’s Benjamin Sarlin quotes a series of GOP consultants claiming the party’s presidential candidates are “weak”: Call it the resurgent Republicans’ Achilles Heel. The GOP may have taken the House, closed in on the Senate, and made dramatic gains at the state level. But the party’s 2012 presidential field is weak—and a lot