We all probably figure that race played some significant role in the 2008 election. But a doctoral student at Harvard has used Google search data to put a number on it. His result? Racial hostility cost President Obama 3% to 5% of the popular vote.
Scott Walker leaves the door open to state-based Health Care mandates if Supreme Court overturns the Health Care Reform law.
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Walker tells DC conclave Wisconsin election will turn tide against “bullying” by unions.
Jonathan Chait hits a home run: “Once Washington was a happy place where a girl and her mother could be groped simultaneously in good fun by a white supremacist. Sadly, it has all been ruined by Kim Kardashian and Ezra Klein.”
When the Supreme Court decides the fate of the Health Care law, it will also be deciding the future of the federal budget.
Today DC is prepping for the arrival of the rock star of the moment, a combination of Mick Jagger, Justin Bieber and Bono.
His name: Scott Walker.
Meanwhile would-be Republican governors around the country campaign to be ‘the next Scott Walker‘ or as one New Hampshirite puts it, “Scott Walker on steroids.”
Jon Stewart on the Congressional furor over national security leaks:
“The president’s killing people with flying robots, and you should not know that.”