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MT @TheAtlanticLIFE: 11,000 students just entered CA elementary schools without "required" vaccinations: http://t.co/geEPqj8A (via @phlu)
11,000 Students Enter California Schools Without Required Vaccines
Despite an outbreak of whooping cough last year, more parents are using a personal belief exemption to get out of vaccinating children Last year, 10 babies died and more than 9,000 people were s...
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.@jbplainblog: soon concern re "'weak field' will be gone, replaced by...how...Romney or Perry has dramatically improved" http://j.mp/o3GWwFA plain blog about politics: Christie My post over at Plum Line today is about why Republicans have spent the year pining for better candidates , with Chris Christie being the flavor-of-the-month right now. Basically, I say that it'...
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RT @ed_kilgore: New CNN Poll: Obama "renominate" number: 72%. One month ago, before jobs speech and supposed "shift to left": 72%. http://t.co/mNQGuBaO
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RT @christiangrose: Obama campaign uses social pressure to raise funds. Text sounds like pol. scientists Gerber, Green, & Larimer in APSR. http://t.co/KsZcBtAX
Passive-aggressive Obama campaign guilts small donors - Ben Smith
Whatever works: -----Original Message----- From: Jim Messina, BarackObama.com [mailto:info@barackobama.com] Sent: Mon 9/26/2011 5:38 PM To: Ben Smith Subject: 2,685 people in Arlington, VA Ben -...
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I love the Voice of San Diego new reporter guidelines http://j.mp/qowpY3 Wish more media approached things this way.If “he said, she said” journalism is irretrievably lame, what’s better? » Pressthink For the background, see: We Have No Idea Who's Right: Criticizing "he said, she said" journalism at NPR. This post is a continuation of that one. First item: the NPR ombudsman, Edward Schumacher...
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Important @jbplainblog reminder: Obama support is down across the board http://j.mp/mYMpE4 Only news if subgroup is *different* from trendA plain blog about politics: Hey, Reporters! Here's the thing. Barack Obama isn't as popular now as he was in January 2009. This is not exactly a little-known fact; indeed, we fortunately have some really good indicators of exactly how pop...
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New Kaiser poll shows awareness of key HCR provisions down ~10 points since summer '10 http://j.mp/r50STL (Q4 of PDF). Memories are short.
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RT @jpodhoretz: Rick Perry releases his inner Jew. At 4:45. As Jeff Goldberg says, the greatest video ever. http://t.co/66W1kGWD
Rick Perry Dances the Hora Around a Menorah Without a Torah
Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, he has reported from the Middle East and Africa....
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Contagion: 21st mention of Romney's dog by Gail Collins since 8/07 http://j.mp/piQUaQ Dowd then references it next day http://j.mp/ncEsNk
Perry’s Bad Night - NYTimes.com
It was impossible to watch this week’s Republican debate without realizing that Rick Perry is not presidential timber, or even presidential polyurethane.
Fed Up With the Author of ‘Fed Up!’? - NYTimes.com
Mitt Romney shows the real value of inauthenticity.
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PS Scott Huffmon, a Winthrop political scientist, "called the anti-Obama views a sign of the 'kick-a-puppy syndrome'" http://j.mp/ny2Vfn
36 percent of SC Republicans think Obama was likely not born in US
COLUMBIA - Two years ago, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson called President Barack Obama a liar. Today, the assessment of many of Wilson's fellow Republicans in South Carolina is much the same, a poll of S....
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RT @smotus: Despite what Confessore says, no evidence that Obama's small donors are abandoning him. http://t.co/2p0RrdSlEnik Rising: Trends that are not actually occurring, Obama donor edition Over at the New York Times , Nicholas Confessore has a piece up claiming that Obama's small donors, who were such a major part of his support in 2008, are not showing up for him during this elec...
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RT @kwcollins: Re NYT article on small dollar donors (http://t.co/HQRg3F3G), I predict fundraising will pick up once Rep. cand. emerges and can be attacked
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Poll: 30% of SC GOP think Obama is Muslim, 36% probably/definitely born outside US http://j.mp/qrZyKc (via John Pitney http://j.mp/noFNjY )
Winthrop University: Winthrop Poll - Current Findings
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After long form BC release, birther beliefs only down from 41% (April) to 36% (now). See http://j.mp/qWh8Fk (PDF) for more on this problem
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RT @tofias: Shorter Friedman: Obama can end failure to comprise by summoning & telling GOP to adopt liberal policies. All hail the power of Camp David!
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Kristol: "no front-runner... has ever ... had as weak a showing as Rick Perry. It was close to a disqualifying 2 hours" http://j.mp/pgbsDv
Special Editorial: Yikes | The Weekly Standard
THE WEEKLY STANDARD's official reaction to last night's Republican presidential debate: Yikes. Reading the reactions of thoughtful commentators after the stage emptied, talking with conservative...
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Context from '99: "Bush came across...as uncertain...rehearsed responses & ... stilted talking points" RT @markzbarabak http://t.co/x2SXmVAO
Bush's Winning Glow Dims After Poor Debate Reviews
After his less-than-commanding performance in two presidential debates, George W. Bush faces a tougher race than expected amid growing signs of Republican discontent--including a new poll that s...
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Perry's struggles should remind us of the skill required to be a top-tier national politician. Wesley Clark is feeling his pain right now.
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Stony Brook's Norpoth: "Comfort for Obama: History Is on His Side in 2012" - rare for party to lose pres. after 1 term http://j.mp/o0YNY6
Comfort for Obama: History Is on His Side in 2012
Nearly all the usual suspects that predict presidential elections point to a rough road ahead for Obama: His job approval rating, which has sunk to the low 40's; an economy with anemic growth, a...
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Still early, but CSM notes "[n]o one w/[approval] as low as Obama’s at this point in time has gone on to win reelection" http://j.mp/qpS0Em
What history says about President Obama's approval rating now
President Obama's approval rating hovers around 40 percent. Will he get reelected? It doesn't look good in the light of other presidents (since 1947) at this same point. By Liz Marlantes, DCDeco...
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NYT runs brutal verbatim transcription of Perry stammering about Romney flip flops: http://j.mp/mV06pN Video here: http://j.mp/pWrXSJ
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate - NYTimes.com
With Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Mitt Romney well out in front, the other candidates sought to break through in the Republicans’ third presidential debate in 15 days.
Michelle Malkin » Video: Perry’s cringe-worthiest debate moment
By Michelle Malkin • September 23, 2011 12:08 AM I mentioned Rick Perry's DREAM Act debate blunder in my round-up post. The cringe-worthiest moment, by a hair, was when Perry botched what should...
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Perry's struggles should remind us of the skill required to be a top-tier national politician. Wesley Clark is feeling his pain right now.
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RT @SteveKornacki: Really good post from @ThePlumLineGS correcting Matt Bai on public opinion & taxes http://t.co/jeSIelyU
Our surreal debate over taxing the rich
One of the most bizarre things about our current debate on taxes is the constant tendency of commentators to predict widespread public rejection of Obama's tax hike proposals without even bother...
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News from the world of postmodern grammar RT @jonathanchait: New post: WSJ scare quote update http://t.co/NM3kgmPJ
Scare Quotes Continue to Plague Journal Editorial Writers
I have a long-standing fascination with The Wall Street Journal editorial page in general, and specifically with its inexplicable habit of placing scare quotes around any noun that the author ha...
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Scary to see it could be much worse MT @crampell how aftermath of financial crisis compares w/others in Reinhart/Rogoff http://t.co/6CGjNsy5
This Time is Different, An Update
The following provides an update on the great research that Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff conducted regarding the build-up and subsequent bust of historical financial crises. While their wo...
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Good @jamestaranto critique of AP fact-checks of subjective language ("moral equivalency"/"thrown... under the bus") http://j.mp/qK6LoD
Best of the Web Today: The Five Million Dollar Man
In his Labor Day speech in Detroit, Barack Obama issued a ringing endorsement of government employee unions: From the president's hometown comes an example of what he is actually supporting. The...
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