nytimes.com - 30 days ago
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Liberals and conservatives each have their own intellectual food chains. They have their own think tanks to provide arguments, politicians and pundits to amplify them, and news media outlets to deliver streams of prejudice-affirming stories. Independents, who are the largest group in the ...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 11/4/2009
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
(CNN) – Independents appear to be playing an
important role in the country's two off-year gubernatorial races....
In New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie took 58 percent of the independent vote, according to early CNN Exit Poll data. ...
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Exit polls: Independents may play crucial role
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Daily Kos —
... do almost nothing to reduce the scandalously high number of Americans who have no insurance. And it makes only a token stab at slowing the relentlessly rising costs of medical care. Eugene Robinson: Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday's elections, but Republicans don't have time to think. They're too busy trying to survive the party's internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia. David Brooks: According to Gallup, the share of ...
Brooks: Independents are Meandering Cats
The Moderate Voice —
The money line from Mr. Brooks’ column today:
Independents are herds of cats who find out what they think through a meandering process of discovery.
While that’s probably not fair to say about all independent voters, it’s a shockingly accurate description of the independent voter writing this post.
Of course, despite my decision to headline the “meandering cats” part of Brooks’ column, his primary argument is not about meandering. It’s about how independents have ...
Is David Brooks Punking Me?
The New Republic blogs —
... the independent voters who decide elections--were just pissed off about the economy. To believe the former, you'd have to believe that these voters have well worked-out views about the proper size of government, and that they're supremely self-aware about where they stand on the ideological spectrum, and where politicians stand relative to them at any given moment, which strikes me as a bit implausible. Alas, today David Brooks basically takes the too-far-from-the-center argument and runs with it . It's as though he read my post and tried to construct a column that came to the ...
Purging American Muslims and Republican Moderates, Putting Lipstick on a Swine Flu
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man —
Paul Krugman David Brooks Dana Milbank Eugene Robinson Joe Klein "Voters across America are in a bad mood, largely because of the still-grim economic situation." - Paul Krugman ...
How fast should Obama be moving?
Ezra Klein —
... In today's column, David Brooks echoes the conservative conventional wisdom that President Obama "is moving too fast," though he attributes the sentiment to independent voters as opposed to himself. As Tim Fernholz ...
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