Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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NotesRachel Maddow on Obama’s Re-election. Watch it before it goes crazy viral.
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Notes"As a result, they believed the public/media polls were skewed - they thought those polls oversampled Democrats and didn’t reflect Republican enthusiasm."CBS News reports that the very top levels of the Romney campaign actually believed the conservative media’s bullshit about “unskewed polls.” That shocks me. I can understand publicly saying you think the polls are biased against you in order to rev up the base. But internally, you have to have some grip on reality.
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Notes"The groups on whom Obama depended are the ones that are growing; white men, the core Republican constituency, are a shrinking minority…. The future of the Grand Old Party will be determined by how well it adapts to the brand new Liberal America — indeed the Obama America — that is now here to stay." -
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Notes"What we have here is a delicious slice of pie — i.e., Hannity and Fox being part of a conspiracy alleged by Hannity and Fox." -
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Notes"Still, a flustered adviser, describing the mood, said that the campaign was turning into a vulgar, unprintable phrase."He definitely said “clusterfuck,” right? A Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign
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Best thing ever. By the AP’s Carolyn Kaster.
Great Biden photo or greatest Biden photo?
Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion.
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Notes"Counterinsurgency is when you try to win the hearts and minds of the enemy. Counterterrorism is when you kill the enemy and then try to win their hearts and minds."A great line from Politico’s Roger Simon.
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NotesThis is pretty much the best thing that has ever happened on cable television.
Shep Smith reacts to Mitt Romney reacting to Newt Gingrich quitting (by dkostv)
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"Precisely because of the consequences of Carter’s failure, Obama was the more daring in making his go/no-go decision. That’s the case I argued last year, and nothing I’ve learned since then changes my view. As a college student, Obama had seen a marginally popular Democratic president come to ruin because he approved a helicopter-based secret mission into hostile Middle Eastern terrain. Obama went ahead with a helicopter-based secret mission into nominally “allied” territory, also with huge potential for trouble if things had gone wrong."
