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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/npOEFfChecking 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... -
The climate change divide is driven by values, not scientific literacy http://j.mp/qGkhIi
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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Via @jonathanchait, a horrifying anecdote about a man who tries to cash a check and ends up losing almost everything http://j.mp/p3X0j5
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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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
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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Recommended: @jbplainblog on how $ undercuts minority party's incentive to compromise http://j.mp/nZCcsN (I would add primaries)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 ...
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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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Excited about David Brooks's newfound love for social science, but he needs a grad student to help with the popularizing http://j.mp/qoxvSLDoes 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...
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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/Y55b2wiRunning 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...
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RT @afrakt: Brilliantly simple. RT @kdrum: All of Modern Politics in One Chart http://t.co/FE1553S
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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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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RT @asymmetricinfo: Every month seems to validate the Rogoff and Reinhart theory that recovery from financial crisis is sloooooooooooooooow.
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John Sides responds to @fivethirtyeight - GOP moves are driven by activists/elites more than voters http://j.mp/qW4pz3Are 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...
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The dissemination of Heritage talking points for #AskObama to politicians, interest groups, etc. http://j.mp/o4SJqx (via @jbplainblog)
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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More on polarization and the US role in the domestic and global economy from @mattyglesias http://j.mp/nn4WId
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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Emory political scientist Alan Abramowitz: "Setting the Record Straight: Correcting Myths about Independent Voters" http://j.mp/onXNBg
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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Reminder: No relationship between spending cuts and re-election vote, strong relationship with econ. growth http://j.mp/9mfQbX
The magical thinking of Fred Barnes - Brendan Nyhan Updated below with more details on Clinton's win in 1996] I take it as a given that most journalists know very little about political science. But I still assumed that almost everyone has a basi...
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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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RT @vaughanbell: Gay profs perceived as politically biased based on same syllabus as straight profs http://t.co/fReGesl via @kfranklinphdNews: 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...
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RT @hardsci: Persuade, don't scold RT @PsychScience: Ironic effects of anti-prejudice messages http://t.co/qmNqdv5Ironic 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...
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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
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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One of my favorite journalistic tropes - the demand for stronger adjectives. Aren't you outraged? Incensed? Appalled? http://j.mp/n0j5n7
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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Amusing post from @jonathanchait about Jake Tapper's demand for stronger adjectives from the White House http://j.mp/qyQKx3
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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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
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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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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Counterfactuals are a hard sell MT@ezraklein How stimulus could've worked even if too small and unemployment is high http://t.co/j7SS7FICould 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...
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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
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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New Slate article on ongoing social contagion debate including my work with @Student http://j.mp/lYQGtu Our paper: http://j.mp/lmtLkb (PDF)
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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Strong prez narratives oversold, but Obama can't negotiate RT @davidfrum: Would LBJ face this predicament? or Hillary? http://t.co/boFNC99
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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