Since everyone is doing year-end lists, here are my ten most-read posts of 2011. Interestingly, two are posts that still draw significant traffic through links and Google: 1. The disappearing Tax Foundation blog post (5/16/11) 2. The problems with the Groseclose/Milyo study of media bias (12/22/05) 3. Forecasting 2012: How much does ideology matter? (11/10/11)

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My new post at CJR analyzes how reporters’ dependence on news pegs is hampering coverage of Newt Gingrich in New Hampshire: Given that Gingrich has seemingly come out of nowhere to mount the first serious challenge to Mitt Romney’s frontrunner status, it seemed appropriate to expect that he would receive newfound media scrutiny. But at

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