Newark Mayor Cory Booker, referencing a Jay-Z song in a tweet today.
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With positive ratings for Congress at an all-time low, it may come as no surprise that a plurality of voters nationwide believes a group of people randomly selected from a telephone book would do a better job than the current legislators.
h/t @ThinkProgress
You don’t get to see the behind the scenes stuff all too often. Politics. So emotional.
Putting politics aside: one of the best things that you can have in any job - whether’s it’s building furniture or playing baseball or working for a presidential campaign - is a boss who cares about his employees, and makes you feel that what you are doing is important.
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Politics is politics and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I respect that. The one thing that shouldn’t be questioned is my support for the police officers and troops that protect us every day. Peace yall!
Common (via washingtonexaminer)
Democrats are from Tumblr; Republicans are from Pinterest. That is not, perhaps, the most salient takeaway from a survey of young adults released today by Harvard’s Institute of Politics — but it’s certainly the most interesting! (From our perspective, anyway.) (via
Read More> The dramatic politics of social platforms, in one chart - WaPo
…while I appreciate the concern over the future of civility in politics, I believe a little raw anger right now is justified. Democrats make a mistake by pretending there is a bipartisan spirit in Congress these days, and would be better served by calling out Republican shams.
The specifics of the debate last week should be an example of an issue beyond partisan dispute. The bill in question was created to help the thousands of citizens who went to ground zero after the Sept. 11 attacks. These are Americans who wanted to help, and who scientific studies now show are falling ill and dying in troubling numbers.
Anthony Weiner - Why I Was Angry
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via Politics Daily
LOL! Alex Jones on BBC One Sunday Politics and it’s hilarious! Skip to 3:45 for the in-studio madness.
THE POLL DANCE: Nate Silver on Predicting Elections
Nate Silver turned a love of baseball into a breakout career in forecasting player performance, inventing his own statistical system for gaming the game. Then he turned his methodical eye on politics, shocking the media-polling industrial complex by correctly calling 49 of 50 states in the 2008 presidential election. He’s now the house polling analyst for the New York Times, bringing a rigorous and gnomic level of intensity to his Five Thirty Eight blog. And his well-timed new book The Signal and the Noise comes out this week, attempting to unspool the science and art of trying and/or failing to predict the future of most anything. We talked with Silver about how the 2012 race looks so far, how it might all turn out, and how this could be the year when all the predictions (including his own) go very, very wrong.