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Marc Hetherington on NY-23
I asked Marc Hetherington for his thoughts on NY-23. He has done work on the origins of partisan polarization and is a co-author of a textbook on political parties. I’ve previously noted his new book with Jonathan Weiler on authoritarianism. Marc writes: The race in New York’s 23rd ...
Wallace hosts  Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday for  half-hour deluge of misinformation
Wallace hosts Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday for half-hour deluge of misinformation
mediamatters.org — Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace dedicated the first half of his November 1 program to an... interview with radio host Rush Limbaugh, during which Wallace allowed and in some cases prompted Limbaugh to advance numerous misleading, baseless, or ... (more) Wallace hosts Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday for  ...
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PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — ... the fact that he didn’t even reside in the district, might have been broadly acceptable to Republicans in rural Mississippi or Tennessee but not in an increasingly competitive district like the New York 23rd where Barack Obama won a narrow victory over John McCain last year. By not realizing this, movement conservatives provided Democrats with one of their only bright spots on a night when perhaps they warranted none.”–Political Scientist Marc Hetherington as quoted at The Monkey Cage. ...

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