Twitter roundup

	Brendan Nyhan Dec 3, 2010 at 3:01pm From my Twitter feed (11/30-12/3)
	ModeledBehavior Dec 3, 2010 at 12:35pm Really wanted to tweet "Here's a great Charles Blow column!" just once. Even though I agree w/ him, as always the argument is weak and lazy
	ModeledBehavior Dec 3, 2010 at 12:36pm Here is it btw http://nyti.ms/fm4bQF
	BrendanNyhan Dec 3, 2010 at 2:39am More on correlates of the Senate earmark Vote http://j.mp/gIr1gk
	The Monkey Cage: Explaining the Senate Earmark Vote
	BrendanNyhan Dec 3, 2010 at 1:55am Abramowitz: "today, just as in the 1960s, Americans tend to be ideological conservatives but operational liberals" http://j.mp/i8xyAx
	Alan Abramowitz: The Myth of a Conservative Public Despite gains made by the Republican Party, support for activist government remains very strong. Evidence from Gallup shows that Americans tend to be ideological conservatives but operational li...
	BrendanNyhan Dec 2, 2010 at 7:03pm .@jbplainblog on how quality of GOP pres. cands. mainly relevant to who wins party nom., not party chances in general: http://bit.ly/febzRm
	A plain blog about politics: Candidate Reputation and Presidential Elections
	BrendanNyhan Dec 2, 2010 at 5:28pm UF's Ragusa: Senate earmark ban vote was driven by ideology, state size, and committee affiliation, not being up in '12 http://j.mp/dWatsU
	Voting on the Coburn Amendment: Distributive or Horse Race Politics? | Rule22
	BrendanNyhan Dec 2, 2010 at 3:35pm Via @mikeallen, Goldman Sachs bumps 2012 GDP growth forecast to 3.6% http://j.mp/fWDUJ6 (PDF) -- good news for Obama re-election prospects
	BrendanNyhan Dec 1, 2010 at 10:13pm More from @drjjoyner on how pres. candidates rarely seem presidential in advance: http://j.mp/e1WwaN My original post: http://bit.ly/f6IxBC
	Presidential Candidates Never Seem Presidential The prospective Republican field for 2012 is dismal. Then again, it always is.
	Presidential challengers usually seem flawed - Brendan Nyhan The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin quotes a series of GOP consultants claiming the party's presidential candidates are "weak": Call it the resurgent Republicans’ Achilles Heel. The GOP may have t...

Comments

[David in Cal]

I was unable to open Charles Blow's article from Brendan's link. Here's a link to what I think is the column Brendan is referring to http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/opinion/20blow.html?ref=charles_m_blow

This column has been torn to bits in the right wing blogosphere. Blow's oddest comment is
Where’s the comparable mound of documentation for discrimination against whites? There isn’t one.
In fact, affirmative action in the workplace, in colleges, and in government has given millions of blacks preferences over whites (and Asians). Maybe Blow doesn't consider this discrimination, but to the white or Asian who lost out to a less qualified black, it is discrimination.

[David in Cal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/opinion/04blow.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

Here's a Charles Blow column that's pretty good IMHO. Blow uses statistics reasonably to demonstrate that the left makes more of a fuss over Palin than the right. And, he makes a good case that she's being given more publicity than she deserves. He points out that the left likes to see the right as not just wrong, but bad -- in his words "hollow, dim and mean." Unfortunately, he asserts without evidence that this description fits Palin. Still, for a liberal to acknowledge that the left likes to use conservative scapegoats is an unusual bit of honest reporting.