Tuesday, August 6, 2024

From Biden to Harris – – a view from the ground (mostly)

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The past few weeks, particularly since the debate, I have been collecting a largely anecdotal and entirely unscientific sample of opinions a...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Who reads the headlines, anyway? -- a tale told mostly in tweets

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      Saturday morning Twitter, or at least the corner of twitter that obsesses over politics and political journalism, started furiously ex...
Friday, August 2, 2024

I'm trying to wrap up the New York Times bashing thread but they keep giving me so much material

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Written on 7/29/2024. Lots to criticize here (the embarrassing "code switching" article alone would be good for a couple posts), ...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

The Return of Thursday Tweets -- “Cross of Doge” wins it this week

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Let's start with representative Kimble. Democrats had better cool their jets and understand that the Trump campaign will not agree to a...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The New York Times Editorial Board loves narratives, but they especially love narratives where they're the hero

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This is quite the piece of work . Sanctimonious and self-serving. It is such a platonic ideal of New York Times editorial board posturing th...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Know your Narratives

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I have to confess that, when I talk about narratives in the press, the term is often inconsistent, ambiguous and inchoate. Along with conven...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Haberman and Swan being suckered by the Trump campaign's failed bluff is the schadenfreude cherry on top

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While the New York Times is not as influential as it used to be, it still has a big direct impact and an even bigger indirect impact on the ...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Sixty years ago...

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When I said Democrats wanted another 1964, that included a desire for the kind campaign that LBJ ran, unapologetically aggressive and most o...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Nate Silver and Stuart Stevens from 2023

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[Gelman addresses some similar points here .] I've been meaning to talk about this exchange since it happened, but it's just as wel...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

1964, 1968, 1972, and a bit of 1980

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What follows is a grossly oversimplified mental model based on flawed and arguably past their sale date historical analogies. I'm giving...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

"It’s a kind of disdain for actual voters"

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Yesterday morning I posted some thoughts on the elite press's fixation on open primaries under the title, " Straussians* of the Cen...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Straussians* of the Center Left

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God, the lust for an “open convention”among the punditariat is embarrassing. — Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 21, 2024 Dem...