 From my Twitter feed (7/5-7/12)Jul 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM |
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.@jonathanchait says Obama is about as strong as Clinton was at this point, but pers. income growth=3% Clinton, 1% Obama http://j.mp/npOEFf
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| Checking In On Old Friends | The New Republic I’ve been taking a bit of a vacation from enjoying the comic stylings of Peter Wehner, but I decided to check in on the former Bush administration Minister of Propaganda to see if he was still s… | |
| Jul 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM | |
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The climate change divide is driven by values, not scientific literacy http://j.mp/qGkhIi
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 Mooney on Kahan on Skeptics | Climate Etc. Chris Mooney has a new post up entitled “A little knowledge: why the biggest problem with climate skeptics may be their confidence.” Mooney’s post responds to Kahan et al.’s new study entitled “… |
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| Jul 12, 2011 at 12:49 PM | |
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Via @jonathanchait, a horrifying anecdote about a man who tries to cash a check and ends up losing almost everything http://j.mp/p3X0j5
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 Man Jailed For Cashing Check | The New Republic This horrific story offers a window into the reality of life for low socioeconomic status minorities: Something like this would never happen to me. I’m white, which makes me far less likely to b… |
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| Jul 12, 2011 at 1:31 AM | |
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NYT Newsmax profile http://j.mp/oByJes goes easy on the pub’s often outlandish content – see eg http://j.mp/mUiGKo http://j.mp/nhPbFj
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 Newsmax, a Compass for Conservative Politics – NYTimes.com Newsmax has become a potent force by offering what its chief executive calls “news that Americans in the heartland would like to see.” |
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 newsmax site:spinsanity.org – Google Search |
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 Search Results: NewsMax.com | Media Matters for America |
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| Jul 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM | |
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Recommended: @jbplainblog on how $ undercuts minority party’s incentive to compromise http://j.mp/nZCcsN (I would add primaries)
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| A plain blog about politics: Not a Normal Party Nate Silver says that the GOP reluctance to compromise is driven by voter alignments . John Sides has a good post up responding, in which he points to the strong conservativism of GOP activists … | |
| Jul 11, 2011 at 12:27 PM | |
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RT @SteveKornacki: Matt Bai says messaging is why Christie got Dem votes for his agenda in NJ leg. nyti.ms/qvqKly He’s wrong: bit.ly/loBEoP
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| Jul 11, 2011 at 12:24 PM | |
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Excited about David Brooks’s newfound love for social science, but he needs a gra
d student to help with the popularizing http://j.mp/qoxvSL |
| Does Nudging Explain Differences in Organ Donation Rates? — The Monkey Cage It’s great that David Brooks is taking to the NYT to defend NSF funding for the social sciences. This is not the kind of cause that NYT op-ed writers usually take up. Even so, one of the example… | |
| Jul 11, 2011 at 1:27 AM | |
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You too can hang out with Newt! MT @kohenari: Things Political Scientists Like: Google+ Hangouts with 2012 Pres. Cands: http://t.co/Y55b2wi
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| Running Chicken: Things Political Scientists Like: Google+ Hangouts… Things Political Scientists Like: Google+ Hangouts with 2012 Presidential Candidates. I just chatted with Newt Gingrich for a few minutes about Thucydides and Greek democracy, since he asked wha… | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 3:39 AM | |
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 All of Modern Politics in One Chart Via YouGov, here is all of modern American politics explained in a single handy chart. Enjoy. Kevin Drum is a political blogger for Mother Jones. For more of his stories, click here. Get Kevin D… |
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| Jul 9, 2011 at 3:37 AM | |
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RT @betsylevyp: Great social network influence paper: paying ppl to work out. Does it affect their friends? http://t.co/AFcJlkU (PDF)
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| Jul 8, 2011 at 1:46 PM | |
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RT @asymmetricinfo: Every month seems to validate the Rogoff and Reinhart theory that recovery from financial crisis is sloooooooooooooooow.
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| Jul 8, 2011 at 1:11 PM | |
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John Sides responds to @fivethirtyeight – GOP moves are driven by activists/elites more than voters http://j.mp/qW4pz3
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| Are Republican Voters to Blame for GOP Intransigence on the Budget? — The Monkey Cage Nate Silver answers this question in the affirmative: He shows that, among voters who voted for a Republican House candidate, the percentage who were conservative increased from 58% in 2008 to 6… | |
| Jul 7, 2011 at 7:51 PM | |
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The dissemination of Heritage talking points for #AskObama to politicians, interest groups, etc. http://j.mp/o4SJqx (via @jbplainblog)
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 How Republicans and Tea Partiers Alike Used the Heritage Foundation’s #AskObama Script Yesterday, President Obama held a live chat session on Twitter. Billed as a “townhall,” the President spent an hour fielding questions from Twitter users about the state of the nation. It was a … |
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| Jul 7, 2011 at 7:40 PM | |
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More on polarization and the US role in the domestic and global economy from @mattyglesias http://j.mp/nn4WId
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 Historical Perspective On Polarization Brendan Nyhan brings some historical perspective on partisan polarization in the United States: The post-World War II economic system was built around the US economy at a time when partisan pola… |
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| Jul 7, 2011 at 7:19 PM | |
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Emory political scientist Alan Abramowitz: “Setting the Record Straight: Correcting Myths about Independent Voters” http://j.mp/onXNBg
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 Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball » Setting the Record Straight: Correcting Myths about Independent Voters Alan I. Abramowitz, Senior Columnist July 7th, 2011 There they go again. The presidential campaign season is barely under way but already pundits and pollsters are making misleading claims about… |
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| Jul 7, 2011 at 2:51 PM | |
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Reminder: No relationship between spending cuts and re-election vote, strong relationship with econ. growth http://j.mp/9mfQbX
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| Jul 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM | |
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RT @jbouie: If the only option you have for changing the political calculations of a president is protest, you’re probably too late.
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| Jul 7, 2011 at 12:59 PM | |
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RT @vaughanbell: Gay profs perceived as politically biased based on same syllabus as straight profs http://t.co/fReGesl via @kfranklinphd
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| News: Whose Agenda? – Inside Higher Ed Do gay and lesbian professors face discrimination from students? A new study — just published in The Journal of Applied Social Psychology — suggests that they do, with regard to perceptions of… | |
| Jul 7, 2011 at 12:33 AM | |
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RT @hardsci: Persuade, don’t scold RT @PsychScience: Ironic effects of anti-prejudice messages http://t.co/qmNqdv5
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| Ironic Effects of Anti-Prejudice Messages – Association for Psychological Science Organizations and programs have been set up all over the globe in the hopes of urging people to end prejudice. According to a research article, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Ps… | |
| Jul 6, 2011 at 7:06 PM | |
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New health myth-busting book by @aaronecarroll of @incidentalecon: Don’t Cross Your Eyes… They’ll Get Stuck That Way! http://j.mp/oqKtem
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 Don’t Cross Your Eyes… They’ll Get Stuck That Way! | The Incidental Economist It’s no secret we’re partial to evidence and data on this blog. We think it makes for better informed, and better functioning, health policy. But research has so many uses. It can be used to dis… |
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| Jul 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM | |
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One of my favorite journalistic tropes – the demand for stronger adjectives. Aren’t you outraged? Incensed? Appalled? http://j.mp/n0j5n7
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 Spending Cuts and Fast & Furious: Today’s Q’s for O’s WH – 7/5/2011 – Political Punch TAPPER: Some Republicans on the Hill say that some of the spin coming from the White House is inaccurate; that the White House and Democrats have not signed off to trillions of dollars in spendi… |
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| Jul 6, 2011 at 12:24 PM | |
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Amusing post from @jonathanchait about Jake Tapper’s demand for stronger adjectives from the White House http://j.mp/qyQKx3
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 You Wouldn’t Like Obama When He’s Not Angry | The New Republic As Brendan Nyhan notes, one of the great journalistic tropes is demanding that public figures use stronger adjectives to describe their position. It’s an odd mission. Here’s Jake Tapper intervie… |
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| Jul 6, 2011 at 4:22 PM | |
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RT @DKThomp: Frank Rich is wrong. Obama’s biggest problem isnt Wall Street’s rebirth, but the death of jobs. And they’re separate. http://bit.ly/kMYkVN
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 Did Obama’s Failure to Stand Up to Wall Street Doom the Recovery? The president couldn’t jump-start job creation. He’s also perceived as not standing up against “moneyed interests” on Wall Street. But one has little to do with the other. Columnists occasionall… |
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| Jul 6, 2011 at 2:29 AM | |
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RT @RyanLizza: Perspective on UNH poll (Romney 35, Bachmann 12, Paul 7, Giuliani 7, TPaw 3): 7/07 UNH poll: Romney 34, Giuliani 20, Thompson 13, McCain 12.
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| Jul 6, 2011 at 12:06 AM | |
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Counterfactuals are a hard sell MT@ezraklein How stimulus could’ve worked even if too small and unemployment is high http://t.co/j7SS7FI
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| Could the stimulus have been bigger, cont’d – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post Whenever you talk about counterfactual versions of the 2009 stimulus bill, you end up with some version of the same response: The stimulus failed – after all, look how high unemployment is! – an… | |
| Jul 6, 2011 at 12:06 AM | |
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An interview by @CJR‘s @GregAMarx with Hans Noel (aka @Student) on “How to Understand the ‘Invisible Primary’” http://j.mp/lAysNo
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 How to Understand the ‘Invisible Primary’ The 2012 Iowa caucuses are still seven months away, but Republican presidential hopefuls are already well into the “invisible primary”-a tumultuous time of speechmaking, fundraising, coalition-b… |
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| Jul 5, 2011 at 7:11 PM | |
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New Slate article on ongoing social contagion debate including my work with @Student http://j.mp/lYQGtu Our paper: http://j.mp/lmtLkb (PDF)
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 Social contagions debunked: Reports of infectious obesity and divorce were grossly overstated. Have you heard that divorce is contagious? A lot of people have. Last summer a study claiming to show that break-ups can propagate from friend to friend to friend like a marriage-eating bacillus… |
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| Jul 5, 2011 at 4:55 PM | |
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Strong prez narratives oversold, but Obama can’t negotiate RT @davidfrum: Would LBJ face this predicament? or Hillary? http://t.co/boFNC99
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 Obama plays nice, GOP turns tough Editor’s note: David Frum writes a weekly column for CNN.com. A special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002, he is the author of six books, including “Comeback: Conservatism … |
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| Jul 5, 2011 at 3:22 PM | |