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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Oct 12, 2010 at 1:08pm From my Twitter feed (10/8-10/12) BrendanNyhan Oct 12, 2010 at 1:07pm ABC, FactCheck.org & AP all say Obama’s allegs. about foreign $ are unsupported: http://j.mp/bu4z55 http://j.mp/a6lh09 http://j.mp/avkjsD Vote 2010: Is Foreign Money Behind U.S. Chamber of Commerce Ads? – ABC NewsThe accusation by President Obama and other top
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Unsupported Democratic allegations against Chamber
With structural factors pointing toward significant Republican gains in November, the White House and the Democratic Party are suggesting that the US Chamber of Commerce is funding its ads with foreign money despite a lack of hard evidence to support the charge. President Obama has called the ads “a threat to our democracy” and the
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Oct 12, 2010 at 1:36am From my Twitter feed (10/6-10/8) BrendanNyhan Oct 8, 2010 at 11:58am Instead of naming and shaming D’Souza, the Post amplifies his nonsense about Obama and anticolonialism http://j.mp/9k5GMo (via @ggreenwald) Dinesh D’Souza – Why Barack Obama is an anti-colonialist Washington Post Staff WriterFriday, October 08, 2010 If you want
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Oct 6, 2010 at 8:56pm From my Twitter feed (10/5-10/6) BrendanNyhan Oct 6, 2010 at 6:06pm Rattner says his friend Michael Bloomberg realizes "nobody has ever really gotten anywhere in the third party business" http://j.mp/dias8F Michael Bloomberg and Third Party Dreams – Swampland – TIME.comThomas Friedman’s Sunday Times column about the prospects for
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Oct 5, 2010 at 4:33pm From my Twitter feed (9/30-10/5) BrendanNyhan Oct 5, 2010 at 4:23pm Third party post updated with a response to @fivethirtyeight emphasizing theoretical reasons to doubt 3P viability: http://bit.ly/dBFRTV Thomas Friedman’s third party nonsense – Brendan NyhanThe dream of the independent third party presidential candidate shall never die —
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Third party hype 2005-
Los Angeles Times columnist Ron Brownstein (4/25/05): [I]f the two parties continue on their current trajectories, the backdrop for the 2008 election could be massive federal budget deficits, gridlock on problems like controlling healthcare costs, furious fights over ethics and poisonous clashes over social issues and Supreme Court appointments. A lackluster economy that’s squeezing the
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Thomas Friedman’s third party nonsense
The dream of the independent third party presidential candidate shall never die — at least in the columns of elite pundits like Thomas Friedman. In his latest effort, Friedman predicts “a serious third party candidate” for the presidency in 2012: Barring a transformation of the Democratic and Republican Parties, there is going to be a
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The fallacy of insufficient extremism
With a GOP wave seeming increasingly likely in November, liberals are already looking to place blame. One of the targets has been Democrats themselves. To date, most have faulted the White House and the party for ineffective communication strategies (an example of what I call the tactical fallacy). This week, however, Markos Moulitsas, the founder
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Sep 30, 2010 at 3:26pm From my Twitter feed (9/29-9/30) BrendanNyhan Sep 30, 2010 at 8:20am Useful @kdrum article on parallels between Tea Party and previous conservative backlash movements against Dem presidents http://j.mp/d55n2U Tea Party: Old Whine in New Bottles | Mother JonesMemo to Obama: Bill Clinton, LBJ, and FDR know how you
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Can Democrats sustain enthusiasm for their presidents?
Yesterday, President Obama spoke at a large rally at the University of Wisconsin that was intended to help rally the Democratic base for the midterm election. But will he and his party be able to narrow the enthusiasm gap with Republicans? The indicators aren’t encouraging. One possible obstacle was suggested recently by The New Republic’s