Pubic Opinion of the PPACA
…cost more and another 15% said the same as originally estimated. Interestingly enough is the agreement of the #1 priority for healthcare; all politics aside and by a super-majority, people…
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I’m so, so tired of political journalists (including some who I think are generally excellent) misconstruing certain types of poll results. And of pollsters not asking the obvious direct question they need to ask. [Addendum added.]
…campaign operations to a friendly Super PAC, and running a full-blown presidential campaign while pretending you haven’t declared. Outside groups on both sides pledging enormous expenditures. Relentless media attention to…
When Did Chris Cillizza Stop Beating His Wife?
…seeing a parade of billionaire sugar daddies looking to sponsor individual GOP candidates. A profusion of clever tactics such as turning over campaign operations to a friendly Super PAC, and…
What Worries Me Most About Clinton: That she may not have the intellectual capacity to discern even critically important distinctions. Including glaring ones.
…United bars election laws that would require super PACs to identify their donors, and corporations to report the recipients of their political largesse. It doesn’t. No constitutional amendment is needed…
Austerity Arithmetic
…it is about 1/3. My comment Alternative austerity arithmetic. But what if the 1% surplus were achieved by raising taxes not by cutting spending ? I will be extra super…
OJ Blanchard defends the IMFs interactions with Greece
…large as the IMF assumed (that’s my one sentence abstract of their paper). Using a super crude back of the envelope guess I think that their work suggests a balanced…
The Confederate Ideology: "At this cost the system is maintained."
…contention may seem anachronistic, after all the economic provenance of slavery, according to the theory articulated by Cairnes, Kliuchevsky, Domar and Solow revolves around a local super-abundance of land and…
Instead of nominating Marco Rubio, the Republicans should just cut out the pretense and nominate his doppelgänger: Charlie McCarthy
…Edgar Bergen’s lap.* A week or two ago I read—I don’t remember where—that there is a Super PAC tied to Rubio that has a huge amount of funding but only…
Hillary Clinton’s Interesting New Math. (It doesn’t appear to have been devised by academics, and hopefully it will not become part of public school curriculums.)
…people out there think the big finance guys who’ve maxed out their direct donations and are supporting her two super PACs are doing this in gratitude for all that federal…
Why the “Proposed Koch gift to WCU is a Bad Idea”
…quality but it did spend millions on creating charter schools. Gates has been called “the nation’s unelected school superintendent”. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame spent over one hundred million dollars…