 From my Twitter feed (9/28-10/3)Oct 3, 2011 at 3:31 PM |
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RT @JustinWolfers: Cheap politics has real consequences. MT @AP: More than 1 in 10 US parents reject vaccine advice for young children. http://t.co/KyMjiy4k
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 News from The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — By age 6, children should have vaccinations against 14 diseases, in at least two dozen separate doses, the U.S. government advises. More than 1 in 10 parents reject that, refusin… |
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| Oct 3, 2011 at 1:10 PM | |
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Second Gail Collins column discussing Willow the cat – may be on its way to a place in her pantheon with Romney’s dog http://j.mp/qAEG4U
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 Happy Tidings From the Hill – NYTimes.com Good news, people! The government will be functioning in October. Congress paid the bills for seven more weeks. And did you hear? Willow the cat is back! |
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| Sep 29, 2011 at 12:43 PM | |
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Amazing reversal: “Obama’s strategists intend to use abortion, gay rights, the environ. & successes in fight against AQ” http://j.mp/ou62ct
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 Obama Campaign Borrows From Bush ’04 Playbook – NYTimes.com In key battlegrounds, the president’s strategists intend to use abortion, gay rights, the environment and successes against Al Qaeda to counter economic attacks. |
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| Oct 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM | |
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22nd Gail Collins reference to Romney’s dog since 8/07 (6% of all bylines) – when will her editors stage an intervention? http://j.mp/pk5LHN
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| The Curse of the Mitt – NYTimes.com Mitt Romney has been knocking over one challenger after another in the G.O.P. presidential race. Is he responsible for the collapse of the Red Sox, too? |
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| Oct 1, 2011 at 4:36 PM | |
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Since 8/3/07, Collins has mentioned Romney’s dog (22 references) almost as frequently as the VPOTUS (24 references to Biden by name)
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| Oct 1, 2011 at 4:46 PM | |
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Bad pundit incentives RT @pwire: Clinton on Carville: “He likes to act crazy because it helps him get speaking gigs.” http://t.co/8a52FZP5
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 Carville’s Secret Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Gover… |
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| Oct 1, 2011 at 2:55 PM | |
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RT @MysteryPollster: Q: What predicts 2012 better, current horserace polling or Obama approval? A: Neither – still too early http://t.co/zzz39Arp
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 Obama’s Approval Rating Is Underwater, But Don’t Try To Predict 2012 Yet WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s job approval ratings have hit new lows over the past month, yet he continues to hold slight leads over Republican candidates in head-to-head polling. Of th… |
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 8:21 PM | |
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MT @rcantor [Obama jobs plan] looks like the underpants gnome theory of governance: 1. Speechify 2. ?? 3. Legislation! http://t.co/8dd6Gduk
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 Why Obama’s Legislative Strategy for Jobs Bill Doesn’t Involve Legislators White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the White House understands why its jobs bill has yet to see movement in the Senate, even though President Barack Obama is traveling the country to de… |
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 12:39 PM | |
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Surprise! “Obama has been…repeating a message for Congress…’Pass this bill’ …It still doesn’t seem to be working.” http://j.mp/nBKR1z
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 Obama pushes on jobs bill while Congress goes slow 10 cities, 10 years, $20,000 a year How to visit a museum without going Supreme Court to examine federal power Perry hunting spot’s racially charged name… Fairfax’s Huntington wants to turn ba… |
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| Oct 1, 2011 at 7:14 PM | |
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RT @Atul_Gawande: The usually wise @michaelkinsley is badly wrong to argue Chris Christie’s weight disqualifies him from Presidency http://t.co/GCnkd0V6
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 12:27 PM | |
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RT @ezraklein: Chris Christie: Not too fat to be president. http://t.co/3cc3SXVJ
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 Chris Christie is not too fat to be president There is a sudden rash of op-eds arguing that Chris Christie is too fat to be president. Over at Bloomberg View, my colleague Michael Kinsley makes the case. Here at The Washington Post, my coll… |
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 7:22 PM | |
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Kinsley’s smart and everything, but isn’t his “Christie too fat to be president” column just blatant pageview-whoring?
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 3:45 PM | |
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How many hours will be wasted debating this inane point on cable? How many Maureen Dowd columns? I can feel our society becoming dumber.
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 3:45 PM | |
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RT @jonathanchait: New post: Chris Christie and the obesity moral panic http://t.co/jyGq9xXm
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 Chris Christie Is Fat. So What? In 2004, my friend Paul Campos wrote a book called The Obesity Myth. In it, he argued that claims about the health dangers of obesity by public authorities are overblown – that eating healthy fo… |
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 5:36 PM | |
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RT @nickconfessore: Been awhile since a male pol’s appearance was scrutinized like Christie’s. Routine for female pols, unfortunately. http://t.co/dxlI1mXB
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 Chris Christie’s big problem Whether or not he lets himself be persuaded to run for president, Chris Christie needs to find some way to lose weight. Like everyone else, elected officials perform best when they are in optima… |
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 3:49 PM | |
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MT @prowag End of abstract is overblown, but contradicts Kinsley’s pageview-whoring: http://t.co/Bqed49uD // See also http://t.co/0LkU5bpw
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 Obesity – Abstract of article: An Experimental Study of the Role of Weight Bias in Candidate Evaluation Formerly known as Obesity Research, Obesity is the official journal of The Obesity Society. Available in print and online, Obesity is dedicated to increasing knowledge, fostering research, and p… |
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 Do Voters Discriminate Against Obese Candidates? — The Monkey Cage Jon Corzine seemed to hope so. A Wall Street Journal reporter thought the opposite, trolling message boards in 2008 for people who resented Obama for not being fat. Here is some evidence, courte… |
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 4:52 PM | |
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Conservatives still flailing about in search of the elusive Obama scandal I predicted http://t.co/lE7pc9rs http://t.co/mkB47n3y
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 Another White House scandal … that is being denied by the parties on both sides Apparently some right wing bloggers think they may have found their next big scandal: The White House may have pressured Ford Motor Company to yank a TV ad critical of Obama’s rescue of the auto… |
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 Fortune Refutes Right-Wing Media Claims That Obama Administration Gave Loan To Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law | Media Matters for America September 29, 2011 9:33 pm ET by Zachary Pleat Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight is reporting that the government has “given” a $737 million loan to Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s broth… |
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM | |
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Matthews explaining the Christie boomlet on Hardball: “He`s grouchy, grumpy…same mood as most of this country” Really? That’s why?
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 12:43 PM | |
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.@gregamarx of @CJR on Wash. Post’s failure to explain how new GOP position led to disaster aid fight http://j.mp/oqpwPg
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 Norm Ornstein Gets Congress; WaPo Doesn’t Result of Republican FEMA brinksmanship described as ‘almost accidental’ Remember that New York Times story earlier this week on the (since-resolved) showdown over federal disaster aid-the one t… |
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| Sep 29, 2011 at 7:58 PM | |
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RT @PredictWise: Great graph by @EconRobe plotting the Intrade chances Obama re-election vs the Intrade chances of US recession in 2012 http://ow.ly/6Ig8S
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 The President’s Re-Election Chances and The Economy – Some Data from Intrade It is conventional wisdom at this point that the President’s re-election, at one point almost taken for granted, is suddenly in jeopardy because of the poor performance of the economy. In a very… |
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| Sep 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM | |
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More grim news for WH: GOP enthusiasm advantage comparable to 2000 (+27) http://j.mp/ndlw6F Dissatisfaction sky high too http://j.mp/r1RlGQ
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 Democrats Dispirited About Voting in 2012 PRINCETON, NJ — In thinking about the 2012 presidential election, 45% of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic say they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual, while nearly as m… |
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 Americans’ Satisfaction With U.S. Remains Near 32-Year Low WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ satisfaction with the way things are going in the United States remains at 11% in September as it was in August, the lowest readings on this measure since December… |
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| Sep 29, 2011 at 12:34 PM | |
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Reminder from @jamesfallows: “‘savior’ candidates are never again as popular as they are the day before they announce” http://j.mp/qlKjDR
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 (Stop) Waiting for Chris Christie Sign up to receive our three free newsletters Just after the streets of Tunisia and Egypt erupted, China saw a series of “Jasmine”… Everyone from President Obama to Ted Koppel is bemoaning a dec… |
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| Sep 29, 2011 at 12:30 PM | |
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Great TNR profile of Rick Perry – shows he is just as much of an ambitious, strategic politician as Romney http://j.mp/rbcVT3
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 The Permanent Candidate: What’s Driving Rick Perry? | The New Republic The Tea Party movement had not yet fully impinged on the nation’s consciousness when Rick Perry stepped to the podium outside Austin City Hall on April 15, 2009, to speak at a tax-day protest. |
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 4:23 PM | |
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MT @j_a_tucker: Are Obama’s small donors really as “slow to return” as NYT suggested? @MonkeyCageBlog: http://t.co/lS4VBkdP
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 Obama’s Small Donors: Slow, or Perfectly Normal? — The Monkey Cage We are pleased to welcome Adam Seth Levine of Cornell University with the following guest post in response to the recent NY Times story on Obama’s small donors and his 2012 re-election race: The… |
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 2:41 PM | |
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John Sides of @monkeycageblog breaks down seemingly conflicting polls on Obama’s handling of the economy & his jobs plan http://j.mp/r6E0A3
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 A Public Opinion Paradox: Voters Like Public Works, Payroll Tax Cuts, And Aid To States. But Tell Them That’s The “Obama Jobs Bill” And They Say “meh.” | The New Republic If you haven’t noticed already, the polling about President Obama’s jobs proposal is very confusing. Ask people whether they like the plan as a whole, or how they rate Obama’s handling of the ec… |
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM | |