 Twitter roundup (5/18-5/24)May 24, 2011 at 1:54 PM |
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Implausible @jpodhoretz claim — “Why They’re Not Running: $1 Billion Is Why” http://j.mp/jp2KGk So they would have run if Obama had $500M?
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 Why They’re Not Running: $1 Billion Is Why « Commentary Magazine Mitch Daniels’s announcement that he’s not running for president, along with so many other plausible Republican candidates, indicates how unusual an election cycle this is. People used to crave … |
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| May 24, 2011 at 1:44 PM | |
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Um, no: “elites harmoniously resolving their differences… is exactly what already drives American policy & politics” http://j.mp/mvibzR
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 Glenn Greenwald David Brooks flew to London so now he’s an expert on British politics, and in his New York Times column this morning, he explains why “the British political system is basically functional while … |
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| May 24, 2011 at 1:35 PM | |
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Obama adviser: “Through process of winning that nomination, [GOP nominee] will achieve stature and…be competitive” in $ http://j.mp/kFmKyZ
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 With Daniels out, GOP presidential field takes clearer shape Lubbers said reaction to Daniels’s decision has been one of sadness by many who were urging him to run, especially among those who saw in the governor someone who “was on to something and was ta… |
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| May 24, 2011 at 11:31 AM | |
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.@davidfrum on Ailes: “confrontation sells…hard to resist the thought that… Christie must therefore be the solution” http://j.mp/mJj6K3
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| http://j.mp/mJj6K3 How Mitt Romney handles Fox News president Roger Ailes will tell a lot about whether he has the cunning and the toughness to be a successful president. | |
| May 24, 2011 at 1:07 AM | |
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RT @mattyglesias: Reporters need to do more to help us understand the emergence of strong party discipline in the GOP: http://ygl.as/k5Pu5U
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| Yglesias » House GOP Embraced Politically Suicidal Medicare Repeal Plan With Eyes Wide Open To Its Unpopularity Glen Thrush and Jake Sherman have a very interesting Politico article noting that House Republicans weren’t confused about the unpopularity of the budget plan they voted for earlier this year. | |
| May 24, 2011 at 12:53 AM | |
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RT @SteveKornacki: Not reading much into Mitt’s NH #s. McCain got 49% in NH in 2000, fell as low as 5% in summer of 07, won w/ 36% in 1/08
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| May 23, 2011 at 11:57 PM | |
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What about 2020? MT @CitizenCohn: @MikeGrunwald considers how Daniels exit will affect GOP … in 2016 http://t.co/o49l8fx
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 Reality Bites: The GOP After Daniels, and After 2012 | Swampland | TIME.com The most important political story of the Obama era has been the Republican Party’sgrowing defiance of reality-its denial of climate science, its denunciations of Medicare cuts while proposing … |
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| May 23, 2011 at 6:48 PM | |
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.@joshuagreen on “the unlikely spectacle of Brooks and Shields analyzing the death of Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage http://j.mp/lJA8dD
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 David Brooks Responds to BrooksMeme – Joshua Green – Politics – The Atlantic Joshua Green – Joshua Green is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a weekly political columnist for the Boston Globe. More Joshua Green is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a weekly political … |
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| May 23, 2011 at 3:52 PM | |
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DNC web ad distorts Pawlenty not knowing *when* he decided to run as him not knowing *why* http://j.mp/iOz4NA Source: http://j.mp/kA3vPk
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| Pawlenty Makes GOP Bid Official: Is He Too Nice For His Own Good? — Printout — TIME It was after 8 p.m. at the public library in the quiet town of Adel, Iowa, and staffers were folding up the metal chairs. Tim Pawlenty’s question-and-answer session had wrapped up some 30 minute… | |
| May 23, 2011 at 1:19 PM | |
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RT @PeterHambyCNN: DNC distortion RT @CrowleyTIME: A transcript of my exchange w/ Pawlenty about when he got serious about running for pres http://t.co/HEYq27V
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| What Pawlenty Said | Swampland | TIME.com The Democratic National Committee has been having fun with my recent profile of Tim Pawlenty–specifically by bashing him, as this video does, for allegedly responding “I don’t know, I wish I ha… | |
| May 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM | |
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Reminder to panicking Republicans — 1991 NYT: “Political Memo; Democrats’ Distress Grows As Presidential Field Shrinks” http://j.mp/ieMFV4
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| http://j.mp/ieMFV4 Democrats struggled today to adjust to the last thing they needed six months before the Iowa caucuses: an already tiny Presidential field that keeps shrinking.As expected, Senator John D. | |
| May 22, 2011 at 3:31 PM | |
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Useful reminder of why Perry is not marketable like GWB RT @davidfrum: With Daniels out, is Rick Perry the answer? No. http://bit.ly/kMYjXy
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| With Daniels Out, Is Perry the Answer? No | FrumForum With Mitch Daniels announcing that he will not seek the party’s nomination, conservatives are once again looking for a white knight to save the Republican field. The newest name being promoted i… | |
| May 22, 2011 at 2:03 PM | |
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RT @pourmecoffee: In terms of media covering things that were never going to happen, Rapture still ranks behind Trump candidacy.
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| May 22, 2011 at 12:28 AM | |
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.@gregamarx interviews John Sides of @monkeycageblog on “what we can—and can’t—learn from early polling” http://j.mp/mEgMEM
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 Q&A: Poli-Sci Blogger John Sides : CJR Greg Marx is a writer based in Jersey City, N.J. The GWU professor on what we can-and can’t-learn from early polling The 2012 election is almost eighteen months away, but politics junkies are al… |
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| May 20, 2011 at 5:19 PM | |
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RT @msnbcTomCurry W/ #NY26 in mind, when do special House elections predict one party will gain seats? http://j.mp/jMtpc2 (via @loujacobson)
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 Will special elections predict House power shift? Traxler did get a boost from the 1971 reapportionment that put a heavily Democratic county in the district. But pundits saw his win as a sign of doom for Republicans. “No Republican should assum… |
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| May 20, 2011 at 4:00 PM | |
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MT @CookPolitical why the Pres hasn’t had more of a bump in the polls since death of bin Laden http://njour.nl/k9WczD (via @loujacobson)
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 The Cook Report: A Brief Bounce More than two weeks have passed since the successful SEAL team raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and, as expected, about half of President Obama’s ratings bounce has disa… |
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| May 20, 2011 at 3:54 PM | |
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Hillary’s mileage-very important! MT @GrahamDavidA: Where are the “facts” being “checked” in this “Fact Checker” column? http://j.mp/m2Chux
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| http://j.mp/m2Chux Obama’s speech is an attempt to put the Arab Spring into context and to hit the “reset button” on U.S. policy in the region. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 7:35 PM | |
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RT @samsteinhp: this is so weird and random though it would be great if, say, kucinich would read wu-tang lyrics from house floor: http://bit.ly/liIOOc
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 Sen. Republican Leader Christine Radogno Knows Cash Rules Everything Around Her Illinois Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno reads a letter from The Chef in response to the state’s budget crisis, because as we all know, Wu-Tang is for<
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| May 19, 2011 at 7:33 PM | |
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Gallup: “Anti-Incumbent Mood… Persists” http://j.mp/klChI2 But as Alan Abramowitz notes, 2010 was anti-Democrat mood, not anti-incumbent.
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 Anti-Incumbent Mood Against Congress Persists in 2011 PRINCETON, NJ — Twenty-eight percent of U.S. registered voters say most members of Congress deserve re-election, tying the low point in the trend set last year, according to a new USA Today/Gal… |
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| May 19, 2011 at 6:32 PM | |
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RT @SteveKornacki: With Perry/Christie talk picking up, the history of white knight WH candidates in the modern era http://bit.ly/m7qs95
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 2012 Elections: Waiting for that magical Republican savior The news this week that Rick Perry, the longest-tenured governor in Texas history, may be eying a late entry into the presidential race has returned attention to what has so far been a consisten… |
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| May 19, 2011 at 5:49 PM | |
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Misperceptions abroad: “A new CSA poll finds 57% of French citizens think Strauss-Kahn is the victim of a plot.” http://j.mp/m0u37e
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 IMF Chief Resigns Amid Sex Scandal Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire — News, polls and buzz |
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| May 19, 2011 at 5:08 PM | |
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Sentences you don’t expect to hear on NPR: “If push comes to shove, I rep the streets, you know?” http://j.mp/kpf8Up
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 Is The L.A. Food Truck Bubble Ready To Burst? : NPR The gourmet food truck craze that started in Los Angeles may be reaching its peak. These days, hundreds of gourmet food trucks are roving the Los Angeles streets, selling everything from Korean … |
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| May 19, 2011 at 2:50 PM | |
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RT @MoynihanPatrick: @BrendanNyhan Interesting trend from Fox: 22% say US safer w/OBL’s death; in ’04, 63% thought US would be safer if OBL captured/killed
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| May 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM | |
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Ouch – Kristof: “economists are shaping national debates…political scientists often seem…theoretical and irrelevant” http://j.mp/mJyc1t
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 Getting Smart on Aid – NYTimes.com For decades we’ve had a lot of hot air about how best to help fight global poverty. Now we have field-tested results. |
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| May 19, 2011 at 11:28 AM | |
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Fox finds 15% think there is a chance bin Laden is still alive, 6% don’t know http://fxn.ws/iPYQ2j (PDF; via @fivethirtyeight)
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| May 19, 2011 at 12:58 AM | |
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RT @MoynihanPatrick: “Any chance” is low bar; CBS ’02: 7% possible Elvis alive, 5% DK; MT @BrendanNyhan Fox 15% chance OBL alive, 6% DK http://fxn.ws/iPYQ2j
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| May 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM | |
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RT @MoynihanPatrick: @BrendanNyhan Interesting trend from Fox: 22% say US safer w/OBL’s death; in ’04, 63% thought US would be safer if OBL captured/killed
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| May 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM | |