Top ten posts of 2010

Chris Blattman inspired me to look up my top ten posts of 2010 (by traffic on this blog) -- here they are in case you missed them:

1. The fallacy of insufficient extremism (10/1/10)
2. How much are Tea Party candidates hurting the GOP? (10/21/10)
3. The Obama tax cut misperception (2/15/10)
4. A preview of post-election storytelling (11/1/10)
5. Unsupported Democratic allegations against Chamber (10/11/10)
6. New Pew poll: Obama Muslim myth on the rise (8/19/10)
7. Pundits blame the victims on Obama Muslim myth (8/24/10)
8. Kos seeks to become the Jonah Goldberg of the left (8/10/10)
9. Hack narratives on Obama's decline (3/8/10)
10. The difficulties of repealing health care reform (3/24/10)

Interestingly enough, some old content continues to attract significant traffic -- here are five posts from previous years that were competitive with the top posts from this year:

1. The use of reconciliation 1980-2008 (4/20/09) [#1 post of the year by traffic due to links during the health care reform debate]
2. Leon Kass on ice cream cones (8/8/08) [highly recommended]
3. The continued dominance of the white quarterback (7/31/05) [apparently this is a common search on Google]
4. The Economist on "Meritocracy in America" (1/22/05) [ditto]
5. National Enquirer smears Obama (3/10/08) [ditto]

Comments

[Rob]

Thanks to Brendan for another year of hard work sharing his insights and analyses and for providing a forum for civil debate and discussion. And best wishes to him and his family for a happy and healthy New Year.

[bnyhan]

Thanks! And I should say thanks to everyone for reading and thanks in particular to Rob and the other commenters for keeping the quality of the discussion so high.

[JP]

What a disappointment, I've read all these posts already. The red wine and I think Brendan Nyhan's top ten list of his favorite posts that are not his, sort of like the Sydney Awards.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/opinion/24brooks.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss