 From my Twitter feed (3/4-3/14)Mar 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM |
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Elite backlash grows MT @jmartpolitico Intellectual right: Palin’s identity politics antithetical to conservatism http://politi.co/hug7XP
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 ‘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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| Mar 14, 2011 at 1:44 PM | |
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RT @on_the_media The insidious birth of false common wisdom-CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide: http://bit.ly/gv9r8v
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 A Zombie Lie Is Born : CJR CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide CNBC, CNN, Numeracy, Rush Limbaugh, Zombie Lies Digg Facebook Reddit StumbleUpon Delicious Two days ago I fisked a false report from CNBC th… |
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 1:31 PM | |
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FYI reporters: Treasury "distressed by… inability to get Federal Reserve… officials confirmed" http://j.mp/h7LeXV See http://j.mp/gPo6A9
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 Yglesias » What I Learned At The Treasury Department I was at the Treasury Department yesterday afternoon for one of these double super-secret background briefings with the Secretary and other senior officials. What I learned: — 1. Treasury sees t… |
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 1:26 PM | |
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Obama takes a subtle jab at the birthers at the Gridiron dinner http://j.mp/ibhoUk
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 Obama, Daniels score laughs at Gridiron Dinner – NATASHA LENNARD | POLITICO CLICK The president reminded everyone at the Gridiron Dinner where he was born — with a little help from Bruce Springsteen … |
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 1:18 PM | |
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Don’t forget income growth! http://j.mp/i9umav RT @jonhenke The most important 2012 matchup will be Obama vs the Unemployment Rate.
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| http://douglas-hibbs.com/Election2008/2008Election-MainPage.htm The Bread and Peace Model Applied to the 2008 US Presidential Election The 2008 Presidential Election Popular Vote Result:The official final vote count released on January 22 2009 by the Federal… | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 12:43 PM | |
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RT @rmichaelalvarez Some helpful research for those interested in potential recall elections in Wisconsin: http://j.mp/i75pWA
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 1:23 AM | |
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Mondale? Dan Balz? http://j.mp/aFipuR RT @jbouie Arguing in line with someone who insists that Dems lost because Obama couldn’t "connect."
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| Mar 12, 2011 at 6:23 PM | |
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| Mar 11, 2011 at 11:20 PM | |
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RT @smotus What happened in WI wasn’t a coup. It was unified government. http://j.mp/ec7wCa
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| A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day I interrupt Question Day to note an important catch from Jonathan Chait, who blasts Robert Reich for calling the legislative process in Wisconsin a “coup d’etat.” For those of you who quite sens… | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 7:39 PM | |
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How education and ideology interact to produce factual polarization in the US http://j.mp/fXxjSI [corrected link]
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 You Want More Epistemic Closure? Global Warming (again) and Evolution Somecommenters |
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| Mar 11, 2011 at 5:14 PM | |
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New research from OSU’s Kelly Garrett on the role of email and the Web in encouraging belief in political rumors http://j.mp/fb2ru6
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| Web use doesn’t encourage belief in political rumors, but e-mail does Despite the fears of some, a new study suggests that use of the internet in general does not make people more likely to believe political rumors. However, one form of internet communication — e… | |
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UGA’s Keith Poole: "freshmen House Republicans…are ideologically dispersed," while new Dems are "clustered on the left" http://j.mp/gjaUPv
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| Ideology of the Freshmen House Members of the 112th Congress | voteview Below we isolate the freshmen representatives of the 112th Congress from our plot in a previous post in which we scaled the members of the 111th and 112th Houses in one dimension and compared th… | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM | |
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I’m tempted to send Alan Simpson some CDs of "Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg," but who is "enema man"? http://j.mp/i7Vf0x
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| Obama Made a Substantial Unforced Error in Choosing Deficit Arsonist Alan Simpson to Co-Chair His Deficit Commission – Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality with All Ten Tentacles MJ Lee: >Obama’s debt expert yells at kids: The co-chairman of President Obama’s deficit commission tried to scold the elderly on Monday for complaining about their Social Security funds being t… | |
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RT @jbouie I’m pretty sure "The Enema Man" is supposed to be Eminem.
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| Mar 11, 2011 at 2:08 PM | |
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Another null finding on rich being better represented: "do not consistently fare better than the middle class or poor" http://j.mp/eV6Kdt
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| Mar 9, 2011 at 9:49 PM | |
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Non-"objective" interviews often far more interesting MT @ezraklein Vilsack makes case for subsidizing rural America: http://wapo.st/hX4hEt
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| Ezra Klein – Vilsack: ‘I took it as a slam on rural America’ … | |
| Mar 9, 2011 at 8:59 PM | |
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More on portrayals of authenticity from @jbplainblog & Paul Waldman: http://j.mp/erd7qN http://j.mp/fEZvTH My orig. post: http://j.mp/fKqu4i
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 Authentically Inauthentic Brendan Nyhan suggests that Mitt Romney is becoming the Al Gore of 2012 — in other words, reporters have constructed a narrative about Romney that says that he’s a big phony, and they will inte… |
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| A plain blog about politics: One’s a Born Liar and the Other’s Contorted? Brendan Nyhan had a good post yesterday about Mitt Romney and the press, but I especially recommend Paul Waldman’s follow-up, for two reasons. First, Waldman is very good on the whole question o… | |
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| Mar 9, 2011 at 2:50 PM | |
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More on Mitt Romney and authenticity from @SteveKornacki: http://j.mp/hh2xVy
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 Mitt Romney: Why authenticity matters Every politician is guilty of flip-flopping and pandering. So what’s so special about Mitt Romney? |
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| Mar 11, 2011 at 9:09 PM | |
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RT @smotus I’m wearing a coat & dress shoes today; wore sneakers and sweatshirt yesterday. I’m reinventing myself
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| Mar 9, 2011 at 11:42 PM | |
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NYT’s Blow says midterms increased trust in govt. http://j.mp/gXYCHS Omits improving economy – see http://j.mp/fyEt5y and http://j.mp/h518Nj
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 Tea Party Tailspin – NYTimes.com For the Tea Party, anger is too exhausting an emotion to sustain. |
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 What Will Make People Trust Goverment Again? Barack Obama thinks it’s restrictions on lobbyists and more openness: We face a deficit of trust — deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years. To clos… |
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 The Economy Structures Everything In response to my earlier post on congressional approval, commenter David Adam cites Jim Stimson’s book. Stimson’s findings are even more profoundly related to my subsequent post on political tr… |
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| Mar 8, 2011 at 2:20 PM | |
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May? RT @fivethirtyeight Ensign’s Retirement May Actually Help the G.O.P. http://bit.ly/hny1J4
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| Ensign’s Retirement May Help G.O.P. – NYTimes.com A Republican incumbent pulls out of a Senate battle, and the party may benefit. | |
| Mar 8, 2011 at 1:37 PM | |
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Fact-challenged Rachel Maddow spins criticism from Politifact http://j.mp/e4y0tn http://j.mp/fE4Sse http://j.mp/gKULgp http://j.mp/fE4Sse
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| PolitiFact | Responding to Rachel Maddow On her Feb. 24, 2011 show, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow criticized PolitiFact Wisconsin and how we handled a request for a correction about a Truth-O-Meter item from a statement on her Feb. 17, 2011… | |
| Daily Howler: When Hannity churns reports of this type, we liberals call him dishonest There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes; people make mistakes all the time. But Rachel Maddow admitted no errors in her distraction-laden performance last week–a performance delivered beneat… | |
| Daily Howler: You really have to watch the tape to appreciate the depth of last Thursday’s clowning Rachel Maddow made some flat-out mistakes in her first report on Wisconsin–as people often do. | |
| Mar 7, 2011 at 9:28 PM | |
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Good analysis by Boehlert of how Mike Huckabee’s comments about Obama play to birtherism while giving him deniability http://j.mp/dVgPUM
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 Mike Huckabee And Birther Lite | Media Matters for America March 04, 2011 10:17 am ET by Eric Boehlert It’s telling that the right-wing birther phenomena has swelled to such proportions that we’re now seeing offshoots and subsections to the debunked ODS… |
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| Mar 7, 2011 at 9:24 PM | |
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.@delong promotes GOP economic sabotage meme: "Paul Krugman Watches the Republicans Try to Kill the Economic Recovery" http://j.mp/gP7m6u
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| Paul Krugman Watches the Republicans Try to Kill the Economic Recovery – Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality with All Ten Tentacles PK: >How to Kill a Recovery : We’re still near the bottom of a very deep hole, but at least we’re climbing. It’s too bad that so many people, mainly on the political right, want to send us slidi… | |
| Mar 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM | |
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.@HiddenBrain on psych research into "unconscious bias that discourages girls from math&science" http://j.mp/dJgg6E Fascinating experiments
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 Does hidden sexism discourage girls from math and science? Barack and Michelle Obama recently invited Amy Chyao, a 16-year-old high-school junior from Texas who is working on a new cancer treatment, and Mikayla Nelson, a high-school freshman from Montan… |
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| Mar 7, 2011 at 4:51 PM | |
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New Roland Fryer NBER paper on failure of school-level teacher incentive experiment in NYC http://j.mp/eacWwV
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| Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools Financial incentives for teachers to increase student performance is an increasingly popular education policy around the world. This paper describes a school-based randomized trial in over two-h… | |
| Mar 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM | |
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Will be fascinating to see how 2012 GOP candidates handle UT vs AZ immigration laws http://j.mp/fEYaE2 Difficult primary v general tradeoffs
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 Utah Republicans Adopt Alternative Approach on Immigration – NYTimes.com With its new package of immigration bills, Utah made a sharp break with the hard-line trend in state immigration legislation that has been led by Arizona. |
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| Mar 7, 2011 at 12:20 PM | |
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RT @smotus Comparing politicians and their districts: Are elected officials good representatives of their districts? http://bit.ly/hqLmq1
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| Enik Rising: Comparing politicians and their districts Are elected officials good representatives of their districts? That’s actually a difficult question for political scientists to answer, in part because our measures are poor. We have plenty of g… | |
| Mar 4, 2011 at 5:16 PM | |