Brendan Nyhan

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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
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More on correlates of the Senate earmark Vote http://j.mp/gIr1gk
The Monkey Cage: Explaining the Senate Earmark Vote
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Abramowitz: "today, just as in the 1960s, Americans tend to be ideological conservatives but operational liberals" http://j.mp/i8xyAx
S-conservative-public-largeAlan Abramowitz: The Myth of a Conservative Public
Despite gains made by the Republican Party, support for activist government remains very strong. Evidence from Gallup shows that Americans tend to be ideological conservatives but operational li…
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.@jbplainblog on how quality of GOP pres. cands. mainly relevant to who wins party nom., not party chances in general: http://bit.ly/febzRm
A plain blog about politics: Candidate Reputation and Presidential Elections
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UF’s Ragusa: Senate earmark ban vote was driven by ideology, state size, and committee affiliation, not being up in ’12 http://j.mp/dWatsU
Voting on the Coburn Amendment: Distributive or Horse Race Politics? | Rule22
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Via @mikeallen, Goldman Sachs bumps 2012 GDP growth forecast to 3.6% http://j.mp/fWDUJ6 (PDF) — good news for Obama re-election prospects
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More from @drjjoyner on how pres. candidates rarely seem presidential in advance: http://j.mp/e1WwaN My original post: http://bit.ly/f6IxBC
Presidential Candidates Never Seem Presidential
The prospective Republican field for 2012 is dismal. Then again, it always is.
Presidential challengers usually seem flawed – Brendan Nyhan
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 t…