From my Twitter feed (3/21-3/29) Brendan Nyhan Mar 29, 2011 at 1:35 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Public opinion on Libya – the poli sci perspective from @jbplainblog http://j.mp/h6uNRY and Scott Althaus http://j.mp/e6HVCu Why Obama’s Poll Numbers Didn’t Get A Boost From The Libya Intervention. | The New Republic The New Republic covers politics,

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From my Twitter feed (3/17-3/21) Brendan Nyhan Mar 21, 2011 at 8:03 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan .@forecasterenten: "3 models say: It’s a Tossup" in 2012 http://j.mp/fGhgJk My original post on likelihood of close race http://j.mp/evvk26 Margin of Error: Three models say: It’s a Tossup in 2012 Prez Race In a few weeks, I’ll

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For those who are interested, I’ll be speaking at an AARP Michigan forum on political misinformation in Jackson, MI next Tuesday (free popcorn and soda!): AARP Michigan will host a community conversation in Jackson on March 29 about myths, facts and confusion surrounding media coverage of national health care reform and other big issues, such

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From my Twitter feed (3/14-3/17) Brendan Nyhan Mar 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan .@AdamSerwer on mistaken calls for Obama to use bully pulpit on gun control http://j.mp/i6B37m The Plum Line – Greg Sargent’s take on domestic politics and debate on the Hill. – The Washington Post Greg Sargent’s take on

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From my Twitter feed (3/4-3/14) Brendan Nyhan Mar 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Elite backlash grows MT @jmartpolitico Intellectual right: Palin’s identity politics antithetical to conservatism http://politi.co/hug7XP ‘She’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition’ – Jonathan Martin and John F. Harris Palin’s politics of grievance and group identity has its costs.

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The media’s coverage of Mitt Romney is showing signs of the pathologies that afflicted its coverage of Al Gore in the early stages of the 2000 presidential campaign. In 1999 and 2000, the press pummeled Gore, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, with absurdly trivial and hostile reporting and commentary on the number of buttons on

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From my Twitter feed (2/28-3/4) Brendan Nyhan Mar 4, 2011 at 5:19 pm Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan RT @willwilkinson The Case of the Missing Conservative Social Psychologists http://bit.ly/hoxqWC The Case of the Missing Conservative Social Psychologists That’s the first post at my new Forbes blog on subjects at the intersection of psychology, economics, and

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