Month: February 2011
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Feb 28, 2011 at 1:51pm From my Twitter feed (2/24-2/28) BrendanNyhan Feb 28, 2011 at 1:44pm Huckabee: People who say Obama is "definitely going to be a one-term president" are "obviously political illiterates" http://bit.ly/ebVpmY GOP reality check: Obama looking tougher to beat in 2012 – POLITICO.com Print ViewPOLITICO covers political news with a
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Feb 24, 2011 at 10:29pm From my Twitter feed (2/22-2/24) BrendanNyhan Feb 24, 2011 at 7:07pm Besides oil prices, second biggest threat to Obama’s re-election might be drag on growth from GOP budget cuts http://j.mp/i0dZS6 FT.com / US / Economy & Fed – Goldman sees danger in US budget cutsGoldman Sachs warning used
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Feb 22, 2011 at 3:31pm From my Twitter feed (2/15-2/22) BrendanNyhan Feb 22, 2011 at 3:02pm "The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts" http://j.mp/hRNoOd Fact Checker – Obama’s ‘Apology Tour’GOP presidential candidates say that President Obama keeps apologizing for America and does
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Do early-stage candidate favorability ratings matter?
Yesterday, I questioned Nate Silver’s argument that the GOP’s chances of unseating President Obama in 2012 were weakened by the party’s lack of high-favorability presidential candidates. Last night, he responded, showing that favorability ratings for presidential candidates are relatively stable across the primary process. He suggests this disproves my claim that early primary polls “don’t
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Are the Republican presidential candidates weak?
I’ve previously downplayed concerns that the GOP field is weak since challengers to an incumbent president usually seem flawed at this point in the election cycle. Yesterday, however, Nate Silver made a more sophisticated argument, claiming that the GOP field is relatively weak in terms of the public profiles of its candidates. He compared the
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Feb 15, 2011 at 1:59pm From my Twitter feed (2/11-2/15) BrendanNyhan Feb 15, 2011 at 1:43pm Take that, Excel — ABC’s Jonathan Karl tries to explain the federal budget using the world’s ugliest 3D pie chart http://j.mp/e0AIQc Budget Cuts: Where Does the Money Go? – ABC News BrendanNyhan Feb 14, 2011 at 9:55pm
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Feb 11, 2011 at 6:24pm From my Twitter feed (2/9-2/11) BrendanNyhan Feb 11, 2011 at 6:24pm RT @politifact False for Maddow claim that Fox "said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Obama." http://bit.ly/faEk9t PolitiFact | Rachel Maddow says Fox News ‘said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for
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Early primary/straw polls don’t matter
The political press is eagerly awaiting the results of the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which is supposed to serve as a barometer of the presidential candidate preferences of conservative elites. Unfortunately, if you look at CPAC’s track record, the straw poll is not a meaningful predictor of eventual GOP presidential nominees.
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The downside of Obama’s focus on legislation
Blogger and political scientist Jonathan Bernstein has an excellent op-ed in the New York Times today about how President Obama has failed to push for his judicial nominees to be confirmed: [T]he Democrats share a large part of the blame… For one thing, the president has named only nine judges for the 17 appeals court
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Feb 9, 2011 at 1:45pm From my Twitter feed (2/4-2/9) BrendanNyhan Feb 8, 2011 at 7:43pm Misperceptions about government program usage — part of the "invisible American welfare state" http://j.mp/fwkrms The Monkey Cage: The invisible American welfare state BrendanNyhan Feb 8, 2011 at 7:17pm RT @hardsci Family Feud uses random-digit dialing & makes