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Let me start this post with a bundle of qualifiers. The NYT’s Upshot is a great new data/explainer journalism project. I’m jealous (but don’t count us out in this game yet.) I’m a big fan of Nate Cohn. And I think the point of his article here – that the efflorescence of partisan polls is creating a serious challenge for poll aggregation – is right on the mark. It’s actually been something we’ve been trying to think through in our own approach to poll aggregation and averaging at PollTracker. But let me show you this one collection of data about the Arkansas Senate race because I think something doesn’t quite add up.
It looks like that half a billion dollars of anti-Obamacare ads may actually have increased enrollment.
Great little vignette from Jonathan Chait tracing the slow, utterly unself-conscious retreat on Obamacare by a leading libertarian critic.
Prominent black conservative and Cliven Bundy supporter who recently accused the NAACP of a reign of “racial terror” takes the reins of major Tea Party group.
Six months ago, I said I thought full marriage equality would be the law of the land nationwide before the end of the Obama presidency. Now legal experts say the Utah AG’s decision to appeal his state’s case directly to the Supreme Court makes it likely that the Court will rule on the ultimate question in 2015.
The new .gop domain is now available and has already bloomed into a virtual almanac or archipelago of the The Crazy. As Tom Kludt discovered, the party knows where the real value is and has apparently reserved top choices like benghazi.gop for high dollar negotiated private sale.
Seattle home invader mixes up script, gets naked and recites scripture instead of standard robbery and killing.
In Waukesha, Wisconsin today, a group of business leaders held a press conference to press Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. The event was part of a so-called National Day of Action for Immigration Reform – coordinated by various groups including the US Chamber of Commerce and Mike Bloomberg’s Partnership for a new economy. But things got kinda of weird when a local developer named Dagoberto Ibarra got up to make an impassioned speech which ended with him say “”I’m not seeing anybody doing anything. This is the most useless Congress in the last eight years, because a n—-r is in charge.”
I think we know our laws about sexting and purported sexual predation have gotten totally f’d up when, in order to prosecute a 17 year old for exchanging naked pictures with his 15 year old girlfriend, prosecutors get a warrant to compel the 17 year old boy to submit to what amounts to a mini-porn shoot with a police photographer.