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Wemple’s Blog Launches at WaPo Site
June 27, 2011 09:52 AMFlagging a welcome new addition to the media beat: Erik Wemple, formerly of the Washington City Paper and TBD.com, is writing an eponymous blog for The Washington Post. The introductory post promises reported opinion blogging “driven... Continue reading
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Attack of the Drones
June 23, 2011 02:36 PMIn the wake of President Obama’s big speech on Afghanistan last night, the basic points of his message—a reversal of the troop “surge” starting this year and concluding before the 2012 election, with further drawdowns through 2014; a... Continue reading
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Times Series on Group-Home Abuses Gets Results
June 23, 2011 10:15 AMDanny Hakim’s report on a new agreement between New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s largest public-employee union contains what must have been a gratifying passage to write: In addition to the wage and benefits concessions, the... Continue reading
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Huntsman as McCain Redux
June 20, 2011 05:11 PMJon Huntsman may be stuck at the bottom of early polls for the Republican nomination for president, but, as CNN’s Peter Hamby noted on Twitter this morning, Huntsman has already won another category — “the magazine... Continue reading
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Politico Explores Talk Radio’s Pay-For-Play Practices
June 16, 2011 05:31 PMPolitico reporters Ken Vogel and Lucy McCalmont had an interesting, well-reported story Wednesday about the inner workings of what’s been called the “right-wing marketplace.” Their lede: If you’re a regular listener of Glenn Beck’s radio show... Continue reading
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A Broken Lede
June 13, 2011 03:46 PMThe Associated Press has an important story today about the fairly horrifying condition of many state budgets. On its site, Politico has a rewrite of the AP story. That’s a good thing: the fiscal retrenchment that’s... Continue reading
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Hawkery—and Hackery—from Hiatt
June 13, 2011 02:17 PMIn his latest column, which chides President Obama for choosing “easier politics over harder truths” when dealing with America’s fiscal challenges, Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt provides a near-perfect example of inside-the-Beltway deficit hawkery run amok.<br... Continue reading
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Pawlenty’s Economic Fantasy
June 9, 2011 02:24 PMIn his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has tried to cast himself as a no-nonsense, straight-shooting expert on fiscal matters. Pawlenty trotted out that line again in his big speech on economic... Continue reading
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Nobody Loves Rick
June 6, 2011 02:01 PMSay this much for Rick Santorum: As a former senator who’s been hard at work cultivating support in the early primary states, he was able to attract a respectable amount of media attention to his announcement today that he’s joining... Continue reading
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On Monetary Policy and Presidential Politics
June 2, 2011 04:04 PMIn today’s New York Times, Binyamin Appelbaum notes what is thus far one of the most salient facts of the 2012 campaign: WASHINGTON — No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office... Continue reading
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The Journal Takes on Tim Pawlenty
June 2, 2011 01:46 PMIt’s a common complaint around here that campaign coverage focuses too much on the horse race, and not enough on the records of the candidates. But via Alex Burns and Maggie Haberman--who are doing an able job rounding up campaign... Continue reading
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Covering the Cain Campaign
May 31, 2011 04:08 PMIf you headed out early for the Memorial Day weekend, you probably missed an interesting bit of blogosphere back-and-forth about how seriously to take Herman Cain’s run for the White House—and, more broadly, about how the press should cover presidential... Continue reading
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Did ‘Disaffecteds’ Sink Corwin?
May 26, 2011 05:34 PMIn my first look at the special election in NY-26 (since partially retracted), I wrote that the Tea Party candidate, Jack Davis, was mounting a strong third-party campaign by attracting “disaffected and conservative voters who would... Continue reading
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The Kicker
More on Early Polls
May 26, 2011 03:15 PMOver at The Monkey Cage, John Sides has a quick post following up on my Q & A with him about the predictive value — or lack thereof — of early polling. Sides passes on... Continue reading
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A Great Catch by Ben Smith
May 23, 2011 03:55 PMThe announcement by Mitch Daniels, the Republican governor of Indiana, that he won’t run for president in 2012 seems likely to spark the latest round of commentary about the supposed shallowness of the GOP field. But <a... Continue reading
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A Second Look at NY-26
May 23, 2011 03:02 PMA week ago, I called for more restraint in press coverage of tomorrow’s special election in NY-26, which the press has eagerly framed as a referendum on House Republicans’ controversial plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program.... Continue reading
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Q&A: Poli-Sci Blogger John Sides
May 19, 2011 04:03 PMThe 2012 election is almost eighteen months away, but politics junkies are already being treated to polls asking if people plan to vote for Barack Obama in his re-election campaign, and testing how he fares against specific Republican opponents. What... Continue reading
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Obama’s Big Speech: Is Anyone in the Middle East Listening?
May 19, 2011 01:20 PMAs the president prepared to deliver his remarks on American policy in the wake of the “Arab Spring,” the lead headline on the NYTimes.com home page read, “Obama Speech on Mideast Is Also Aimed at U.S. Audience.” But if some... Continue reading
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A Medicare Referendum? Not So Fast
May 16, 2011 03:52 PMThe future of Medicare is one of the biggest, most fiercely contested questions in American politics these days. And with a special election coming up in a congressional district in western New York next week, the candidates there have spent... Continue reading
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Best of 2010: Greg Marx
December 30, 2010 12:03 PMPolar Opposites: Regular readers might remember that during my time at CJR, I was something of a nag about what journalists could learn from political science. This could probably get tedious, since a regular frame for these stories... Continue reading
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