TPM Reader JM on remembering the broadcasts …
You speak of the CBS News real-time replay of the events. You are nearly 45. I am just past 60
A new report from Dylan Scott on the behind-the-scenes steps the White House is taking to keep HealthCare.gov from getting slammed next week.
Ed Kilgore: 5 reasons we’re better off without the filibuster.
No doubt you heard about how the Obama campaign ran circles around Romney in the digital sphere last year. There was another less-sexy, sub-category of the digital advantage, which was that the Obama campaign used data-crunching to get a lot more ads per dollar than the Romney campaign. This was all really cool if you were an Obama supporter. But it was also part of the way Big Data in transforming political advertising and advertising in general. Put another way, how Big Data and new technologies migrate from Silicon Valley to high stakes political campaigns and then out into the broader political messaging world.
Ed Kilgore gives us five reasons we’re better off without the filibuster.
How relentless is the GOP’s anti-Obamacare messaging? A sampling from our inbox.
Whether you’re Catholic or not, if you’ve been watching the unexpected progress of his Papacy, you’ll want read this. Francis has released his first ‘apostolic exhortation’, which is entirely his own work, Evangelii Gaudium, (The Joy of the Gospel). It brings together the various statements and goals Francis has enunciated over the last eight months and actually takes them further, focusing on a missionary church focused on the poor and not over-bound by intricacies of the Church’s doctrines on sexual politics. “I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. I do not want a church concerned with being at the center and then ends up by being caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures.” Read about it here.
Mark Halperin says yes, there are ‘death panels’ that are “built into” Obamacare. Watch.