 From my Twitter feed (3/14-3/17)Mar 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM |
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.@AdamSerwer on mistaken calls for Obama to use bully pulpit on gun control http://j.mp/i6B37m
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 The Plum Line – Greg Sargent’s take on domestic politics and debate on the Hill. – The Washington Post Greg Sargent’s take on domestic politics and debate on the Hill. |
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| Mar 17, 2011 at 3:22 PM | |
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Disturbing: Gawker on how WP now helps you "segregate yourself in the opinion ghetto of your choice" http://j.mp/ibsCUf (via @jayrosen_nyu)
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| Mar 16, 2011 at 9:29 PM | |
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Pundits tend to overthink Elec College-few races close enough for EC to matter http://j.mp/fY4xUo Still, ’12 might be one http://j.mp/evvk26
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| Mar 16, 2011 at 4:35 PM | |
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A review of the latest neuroscience research on responses to racial and political outgroups http://j.mp/gvpeqz (PDF)
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| http://cn.isr.umich.edu/Papers/Falk_2010_BeliefandTheNeuralBasisofAttitudes.pdf | |
| Mar 16, 2011 at 3:20 PM | |
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See also http://j.mp/e6CLm7 RT @davidhawkings GRAPHIC: Breakdown of vote against short-term spending resolution. http://roll.cl/dI9sAH
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| House Vote 179 – H.J.RES.48: On Passage – NYTimes.com Keep track of congressional roll call votes and members’ most recent positions on roll call votes. | |
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| Mar 16, 2011 at 2:46 PM | |
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Will libs ever realize CFR helped create outside groups they hate (e.g. Kochs)? http://j.mp/hJUems Entirely predictable: http://j.mp/hYqpe8
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| How McCain-Feingold Empowered the Kochs | FrumForum McCain-Feingold hoped to limit the influence of money in politics. Instead, it may have just shifted power to donors like the Koch Brothers. | |
| The wrong interpretation of campaign finance “reform” – Brendan Nyhan | |
| Mar 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM | |
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New WP poll: Palin increasingly polarizing even among GOP (58/37 fav/unfav), while Romney up from ’08 http://j.mp/gwbipb (via @postpolls)
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 Sarah Palin losing more ground among Republicans, Post-ABC poll finds Sarah Palin’s ratings within the GOP are slumping, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll — a potentially troubling sign for the former Alaska governor as she weighs whether to enter t… |
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| Mar 16, 2011 at 1:07 PM | |
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25% of Republican voters think that an organization that no longer exists will be able to steal a presidential election http://bit.ly/dKTXbu
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 http://bit.ly/dKTXbu Fewer Republicans believe ACORN will steal the election for Barack Obama in 2012: One other note from our Republican primary poll- GOP voters think that the ACORN threat has gone down significan… |
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| Mar 15, 2011 at 7:06 PM | |
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RT @jamisonfoser Actual CNN Poll Q: "would you say that Charlie Sheen has mostly been winning or mostly been losing?" http://bit.ly/f3ALHQ
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 CNN/Opinion Research Poll – March 11-13 – Charlie Sheen TOPICS: Charlie Sheen Full results (pdf)… |
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| Mar 15, 2011 at 11:24 PM | |
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Fantastic article RT @davidhawkings Computers can fine-tune redistricting, but can’t overcome changes in voting patterns http://j.mp/ihbw5Y
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 Congress.org – News : In remapping, no guarantees E-mail, call or write the President, Congress or state and local government based on your ZIP code. Find groups’ Take Action alerts or create your own. |
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| Mar 15, 2011 at 2:31 PM | |
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MT @Atul_Gawande In SC. Tomorrow we launch coalition to slash surgery deaths statewide w/checklist in every hospital: http://j.mp/icSNs9
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| Home The South Carolina Safe Sugery 2015 Program launches March 16,2010 in Columbia South Carolina | |
| Mar 15, 2011 at 1:17 PM | |
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How public & elite misperceptions about fiscal policy interact to produce an excessive focus on deficits during downturns http://j.mp/g9maag
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 Yglesias » How Public Opinion Does Matter I feel like Duncan Black’s written this post a million times: Nobody cares about the deficit. Why don’t people understand this? This question has a real answer, though. Politicians don’t underst… |
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| Mar 15, 2011 at 12:58 PM | |
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.@bpump on the consequences of the total breakdown of legislative norms in Wisconsin — highly recommended http://bit.ly/hgVYsd
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| No More Norms in Wisconsin — Barry Pump’s Blog Wisconsin Politics reports that State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has told his committee chairs that Democrats have no voting rights because they are still held in contempt by the ch… | |
| Mar 15, 2011 at 1:02 AM | |
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.@mattyglesias on the research of my friend and coauthor Hans Noel — pundits matter! http://bit.ly/hwAewz
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 Yglesias » Punditry as a Vocation Frank Rich’s humble and intelligent farewell column on the promise and peril of political punditry put me in the mind of research from Georgetown’s Hans Noel that I was recently shown. He reveal… |
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 10:00 PM | |
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Full transcript of Obama at the Gridiron Club via @jaketapper — highly amusing: http://j.mp/eP1jSC
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 President’s Remarks at Gridiron Club Last Night – Political Punch (“Hail To The Chief” plays as the President enters.) THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! (Applause.) Can we go with the song that we talked about? (Laughter.) (“Born In The USA” plays.) (Laughter and appl… |
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 4:24 PM | |
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Journalists who understand the importance of the economy for 2012 — @ezraklein: http://j.mp/fVll6j and @daveweigel: http://j.mp/i57AOp
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| Ezra Klein – What matters for 2012 today … | |
| Weigel : Please Note: Voters Are Angry Because They Want Jobs This Vandehei/Allen thumbsucker about the ways budget-cutters are defining the 2012 GOP presidential race is worth reading, and it drives home a few essential things that keep getting missed. Bu… | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 3:24 PM | |
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Belated props to George Will for his full-throated denunciation of birtherism and attacks on Obama as anti-American http://j.mp/flTLTk
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 George F. Will – Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and the spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012 When Republicans do not recoil from question-rants, the conservative party is indirectly injured. |
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 3:22 PM | |
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Even his staff’s offensive jokes are anachronistic MT @benpolitico In Barbour’s shop, jokes abt Janet Reno’s gender http://politi.co/ehJkAk
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 Japan, Reno humor in Barbour’s shop – Ben Smith Every morning, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s press secretary sends to Barbour’s staff and other allies a list of press clippings, along with a daily compendium of birthdays, historical no… |
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM | |