Month: July 2011
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Of Twitter, Nate Silver, and straw men
One of the problems with Twitter is that people can easily take what you write out of context. Last Friday, for instance, Nate Silver criticized me for “poor political punditry” because of a tweet in which I said “A few more jobs reports like this and Romney et al. are going to be measuring the
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The debt ceiling fight in historical perspective
In recent years, growth in elite polarization has broken down a series of bipartisan norms in Washington, but the GOP’s brinksmanship over the debt ceiling (which will continue today in a meeting at the White House) is historically unprecedented. It’s worth underscoring what the stakes are. Unlike other commentators, political scientists are often relatively sanguine
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Twitter roundup
Twitter roundup (6/27-7/5) Brendan Nyhan Jul 5, 2011 at 1:46 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Interesting – @JonahNRO endorses my post on the myth of Reagan as Great Communicator in USAT: http://j.mp/kwRaym My post: http://j.mp/aEgaFe Column: Obama’s Reagan parallels are falling away – USATODAY.com 5.1, 9.3, 8.1, 8.5, 8, 7.1 and 3.9. While that