Today on the Dish, Andrew live-blogged Romney's cruise to victory in New Hampshire after ample pre-coverage: we found the latest polls showing him well ahead, found his worst-case scenario in the Granite State, checked his history in the state's elections, and wondered whether South Carolina was the true marquee venue. Romney himself received the lion's share of the candidate coverage – we looked at more views on the "firing people" gaffe, aired reader and bloggy defenses of his time at Bain while fact-checking and critiquing his unstrategic claims about it, and discovered how he beat Gingrich. Ron Paul had a bad day, Huntsman's surge might have been real while he took humblebrag cues from Britta Perry, Newt's money man developed GOP trouble, Santorum got pschoanalyzed, and all of these jokers just weren't funny. Wilkinson plumbed the depths of GOP primary voters' minds, Nyhan argued negative ads would be big, second place finish in the whole race was potentially bigger, campaign signs seemed kinda important, the field went nuts over China, and the whole shebang was explained amusingly.
Obama started doing better as confidence in the economy improved and most definitely was not dropping Biden for Clinton. Being a President required a different mindset than being a CEO, the middle class wasn't a class warfare term, and the supply-side revolution busted. Assad gave a ridiculous speech, Paul Pillar defended the CIA, 1896 Palestine surfaced in film, the world might be screwed, and Bush's enablers gave Obama advice on the separation of powers. Anaesthesia suggested interesting things about consciousness, epidemics were monocausal, white dudes weren't chart-toppers anymore, readers discussed Amtrak finances, and spirals blew minds.
Quote for the Day here, AAA here, End of Gay Culture Watch here, (nigh unwatchable) Hathos here, VFYW here, VFYW contest winner here, Face of the Day here, and MHB here.
– Z.B.
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