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January 2010

Is Rasmussen Reports Biased?
Healthcare Spending and Life Expectancy
The Skies Are as Friendly as Ever: 9/11, Al Qaeda Obscure Statistics on Airline Safety
Putting the [R] in [R]asmussen?
Wicked Awesome Thoughts on Massachusetts Special Election
Rassachusetts: Why a Poll May be Terribly, Horribly Wrong — And Why Democrats Should be Worried Anyway
North Dakota: #1 With a Bullet
Tea Partiers Bag Another One
Dodd Joins Dorgan on Sidelines; Blumenthal Enters as Heavy Favorite
2010 Senate Races Present Rewards, but Higher Risks for Democrats
The Retirement Paradox: What’s Strategic for the Politician is Not So Good for the Party
This is Great News! For Sarah Palin! (Really)
Rasmussen, Teabaggers, and Type II Error
Afghanistan – U.S. Politics in 2010
Might Coakley Lose?
Battle of the Massachusetts Polls
As Spotlight Shines on Reid, Re-Election Prospects Dim
Preventing Another Clinton-Obama Primary Fiasco
Massachusetts Chart of the Day
Please Don't Run, Harold
Divorce Rates Higher in States with Gay Marriage Bans
Politics of Afghanistan Part II
Massachusetts: It’s Not Just About Turnout
Please Don’t Run, Harold
Haiti and United States Inextricably Linked
DCC Trying to Encourage Regional Primaries
Vicki and the Tea Partiers
With or Without Reid, Poll Suggests Trouble For Dems in Nevada
OK, It’s a Toss-Up
Liberal Website Helpfully Tests Messages Against Vulnerable Democrat, Finds Them Wanting
A Qualified Defense of Pat Robertson
One Massachusetts Poll That Democrats Shouldn’t Panic About
Scott Brown is a Liberal Republican
538 Still Rates Massachusetts as Toss-up
A Statistical Ray of Hope for Coakley
25% ≠ 0%
538 Still Rates Massachusetts as Toss-up
Massachusetts Model Mayhem
Trendspotting in Massachusetts
A Hung Parliament? (From the Gallows, Perhaps?)
Obama Approval Under 50 Percent Among Massachusetts Likely Voters?
The Coakley-Brown Intangibles
538 Model Posits Brown as 3:1 Favorite
Defying Odds, Republican Brown Becomes Next Senator from Massachusetts
On the Future and Branding of Scott Brown
Six Quick Things
25% ≠ 0%
White House Readies Gamble On High-Speed Ping-Pong
Martha Choakley?
Are Coakley Voters Too Ashamed to be Polled?
Six Quick Things
Defying Odds, Republican Brown Becomes Next Senator from Massachusetts
On the Future and Branding of Scott Brown
Let’s Play the Blame Game!
Post-Partisanship Epic Fail?
Scott Brown is More Liberal Than Olympia Snowe, and Now He’s Pivotal, Too
Is Health Care Reform the new Iraq War?
Will the Base Abandon Hope?
Senate Rankings: Post-Masspocalypse Edition
Health Care Polls: Opinion Gap or Information Gap?
1. Reconciliation! 2. ??? 3. Profit!
Massachusetts Liked Universal Health Care Before It Voted Against It
Iraq’s Electoral Uncertainty Threatens Fragile Peace
International Affairs Intern w/ FiveThirtyEight
The Fits and Starts Expansion
Senate Rankings Update: Delaware, Indiana, Nevada
The Risks of Compromise
The White House’s Brain Freeze
Why Obama Shouldn’t Panic
Evan Bayh To Oppose Procedure That Makes Evan Bayh Unimportant
This President Ought to Know Better
Did the Speech Work?
After Massachusetts, Road to 218 is Long and Winding
What Obama Shouldn’t Learn from Steve Jobs
Liveblogging Obama’s State of Union
Clashing Hues in Richmond
Did the Speech Work?
Obama’s SOTU: Clintonian, In a Good Way
Arlen Specter May Be Screwed, But He Probably Isn’t THIS Screwed
Prime Minister’s Questions: Iraq
What Killed Obama’s Approval Numbers?
Democrats Need a Proactive Messaging Strategy
An In-Depth Look at Fourth Quarter GDP
Enough is Enough