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.@mattyglesias: "correct response [to polarization] is to tweak the institutions" not "wishing for label-free politics" http://j.mp/f7Sgrg
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Bizarrely, No Labels had Akon make a track about them. Lame platitudes… auto-tuned! http://j.mp/hj21oF #nolabels
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| Akon’s No Labels Anthem | No Labels | ||
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$3M health care prediction challenge http://j.mp/ffHqKE
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Shocking that Halperin’s story on possible Obama comeback mostly ignores economy http://j.mp/gSaFpF See also @joelmeares: http://j.mp/dHFF9T
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 What Obama Needs to Make a Comeback: Nothing Short of Luck – TIMEThe coalition that got President Obama elected has been shattered. Rebuilding a politically robust alliance may be the biggest challenge of his career, and he will need happenstance and skill if… |
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Boston Herald says court decision on mandate could hurt Romney http://j.mp/fg8DYG No effect on Intrade price yet though http://j.mp/gt4RO4
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 Health Care Lawsuit Could Hurt RomneyTaegan Goddard’s Political Wire — News, polls and buzz |
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Correction: Stoch. Democracy estimates that tax cut deal results in .75% *decline* in vote for Obama due to frontloading http://j.mp/hvgTUU
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Related: Timing of expiration of the stimulative parts of the tax cut deal reminiscent of Obama’s handling of the Fed
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Tactical fallacy alert: "Democrats lost heavily in the midterm elections partly because they told no shared story." http://j.mp/f7X6YR
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| Political Bookworm – Nothing like a Republican yarn About this blog: The art of storytelling has a long history on the political stage. In the modern era, nobody spun a better yarn than Ronald Reagan and it served him well. As David M. Ricci show… |
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Yet more… RT @SteveKornacki Bai seems unaware that the Reform Party was created 3 years AFTER Perot’s ’92 campaign: http://bit.ly/ef2XFD
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| Is the New York Times trying to make us dumber? – War Room – Salon.com The paper prints even more ridiculously ignorant political analysis from Matt Bai — this time about Mike Bloomberg |
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C. Beam: "both the Stewart rally & No Labels have the same flaw: They promote ‘civility’" but "the problem is structural" http://j.mp/fxZ0Og
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| The new political group No Labels shows why labels exist. – By Christopher Beam – Slate Magazine Everything you need to know about the new political group No Labels is contained in its slogan: “Not Left. Not Right. Forward.” It’s smug. It sounds like an Obama campaign catchphrase. And it ig… |
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Once again @mattbai makes political scientists cry – yet more on what he got wrong today from @jbplainblog: http://bit.ly/eLuzVF
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The scale of LA: "One out of every 19 people in America live within an hour’s drive of the 60 and 57 (intersection)," http://j.mp/i4pk98
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First Dems compared GOP to terrorists and hostage-takers, now gangsters http://j.mp/fW8aqA
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 Nadler: Obama gave in to ‘a bunch of gangsters’ in tax deal with GOP – The Hill’s Blog Briefing RoomRep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N. |
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From 1955 to 1961 there was 1 time when a vote was called to break a filibuster. In the past 2 years, there have been 84. http://j.mp/h1vucs
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 Senate having trouble ‘doing business in the modern era’Last week, the U.S. Senate failed for the first time in 48 years to pass an annual bill authorizing money for national defense – not over disagreement about the part of the bill that would repea… |
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