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More on Research 2000 — I have just published a report by three statistics wizards showing, quite convincingly, that the weekly Research 2000 State of the Nation poll we ran the past year and a half was likely bunk. — Since the moment Mark Grebner, Michael Weissman …
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Kos / Daily Kos:
Research 2000: Problems in plain sight — A bit over two weeks ago, a group of statistic wizards (Mark Grebner, Michael Weissman, and Jonathan Weissman) approached me with a disturbing premise — they had been poring over the crosstabs of the weekly Research 2000 polling we had been running …
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National Review, TPMMuckraker, FiveThirtyEight, The Other McCain, RedState and Nitpicker
Steven Shepard / Hotline On Call:
Daily Kos To Sue Former Pollster
Daily Kos To Sue Former Pollster
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FiveThirtyEight, Don Surber, Talking Points Memo, The Washington Independent and DISSENTING JUSTICE
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Reward: $100,000 for Full ‘JournoList’ Archive; Source Fully Protected — I've had $100,000 burning in my pocket for the last three months and I'd really like to spend it on a worthy cause. So how about this: in the interests of journalistic transparency, and to offer the American public …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Breitbart's bounty — Andrew Breitbart is, entertainingly, offering $100,000 — and confidentiality — for the full archives of Journolist, whose privacy has produced wild conservative speculation on its contents. (The lower budget Weekly Standard is offering $20 and a case of beer …
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PittsburghLIVE.com:
Obama's good for GOP, Boehner says — PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW — House Minority Leader John Boehner, the Ohio Republican with his eye on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's gavel, said the tide is turning the GOP's way. — “The American people have written off the Democrats,” …
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Silla Brush / The Hill:
Wall Street bill back to conference as Democrats don't have the votes — Senate and House conferees on Wall Street reform are expected to reconvene Tuesday because of Republican objections to $19 billion in fees that would be placed on big financial firms. — The meeting would follow …
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Lawmakers Agree to Remove Taxes in Financial Reform Bill — House-Senate conferees have agreed to remove some $19 billion in new bank fees and taxes from the financial overhaul bill in order to win final approval for the legislation. — Instead, lawmakers will likely end …
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A Smoking Gun in the Kagan Case? — Shannen Coffin was a deputy attorney general during the Bush administration, and was charged with defending the federal partial-birth abortion act in court. At National Review, he writes that documents released by the Clinton White House show Elena Kagan's …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Kagan may get confirmed, but Thurgood Marshall can forget it
Kagan may get confirmed, but Thurgood Marshall can forget it
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The Hill:
Obama to senators: Include carbon limits in energy package — Leading Senate advocates of climate change legislation emerged from a White House meeting proclaiming President Barack Obama offered firm support for including greenhouse gas curbs in the broad energy package slated for Senate debate this summer.
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Dems offer to scale back climate bill
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Dems quietly cheer gun ruling — When the Supreme Court extended the individual right to own a gun Monday, they handed Second Amendment advocates—many of whom are at home in the GOP—one of their most significant legal victories ever. — But who won the day in politics? The Democrats.
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Sharron Angle Is Against Abortion In Cases Of Rape Or Incest: It Would Interfere With God's ‘Plan’ — In a radio interview with Bill Manders on Jan. 25, Sharron Angle — the GOP candidate and Tea Party darling challenging Harry Reid for Nevada's U.S. Senate seat — came out firmly against abortion.
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Video: Pete Stark pisses all over voters concerned about border security — Just when I think Pete Stark Raving Mad can't sink any lower in his vulgar contempt for voters, he sinks ever lower again. (Review Stark's Greatest Unhinged Moments here and here.)
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Bill Clinton Breaks With Obama In Colorado Senate Race — Former President Bill Clinton today took sides in Colorado's Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, endorsing Andrew Romanoff's challenge to Sen. Michael Bennet. It's one of the hottest primary races left this year …
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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Lara Logan, You Suck — Lara Logan, come on down! You're the next guest on Hysterical Backstabbing Jealous Hackfest 2010! — I thought I'd seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save their sources from their own idiocy.
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Mediaite, Vanity Fair, Taylor Marsh, The Huffington Post and The Daily Dish, more at Mediagazer »
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In Ireland, a Picture of the High Cost of Austerity — DUBLIN — As Europe's major economies focus on belt-tightening, they are following the path of Ireland. But the once thriving nation is struggling, with no sign of a rapid turnaround in sight. — Nearly two years ago …
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Larisa Alexandrovna / Raw Story:
Updated: Supreme Court vacates Siegelman decision — In a surprise decision Tuesday morning, the United States Supreme Court vacated an earlier ruling by a lower court in the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, who was convicted of bribery and honest services fraud in 2006 in a case …
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Spy ring's ‘femme fatale’ — A ring of 11 Russian moles right out of a Cold War spy novel was smashed yesterday — and among those busted was a flame-haired, 007-worthy beauty who flitted from high-profile parties to top-secret meetings around Manhattan. — Russian national Anna Chapman …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Feingold leads by 2 — It's looking more and more likely that Wisconsin will be in the top tier of competitive Senate races this fall. Russ Feingold leads challenger Ron Johnson by only two points, 45-43. Johnson is polling closer to Feingold than Tommy Thompson was as he contemplated a potential campaign.
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Bachmann: 'I Don't Want The United States To Be In A Global Economy' — This past weekend, President Obama attended the G-20 Summit on international economic cooperation in Toronto, which ended with a declaration calling for member countries to work “to ensure a full return to growth with quality jobs …
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Wrong Track Distress — It's getting harder and harder for most Americans, looking honestly at the state of the nation, to see the glass as half full. And that's why the public opinion polls contain nothing but bad news for Barack Obama and the Democrats.
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David Frum / FrumForum:
Responding to John Hawkins — I don't usually respond to personal criticism. I write to reach a public audience about public issues. I don't wish to be drawn into side disputes. — But I'm going to make an exception today and reply to this long post by John Hawkins over at Right Wing News.