Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Given the close division in the House, I think the best way forward is probably a grand coalition between market liberals, social liberals, social democrats, and christian democrats that sidelines the greens, leftists, and far-right populist parties. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Some good news this month! Doesn’t seriously alter the policy picture but definitely bolsters the case for slowing the pace of rate hikes. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

You won’t believe what they’re teaching school kids about causation these days https://t.co/5CDk5aBt3G — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think we are shadowboxing here about student loan forgiveness where I have to concede that the politics of the White House’s approach worked out fine. But it’s still not true that there was some crazy youth vote surge. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcBodnick Yeah, I’ve been saying their abortion message in particular was more effective than I’d feared — the paid media really worked. — PolitiTweet.org

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What normally happens in a midterm is some people who voted for the president decide to vote for the opposition party to check his policy overreach. But what happened this year is some people who voted Republican flipped to Dems because of Dobbs & insurrectionism. — PolitiTweet.org

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People are already making up stories about youth turnout to explain things — a lot of young people voted but compared to 2018, youth turnout seems to have declined relative to older people. — PolitiTweet.org

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For the past few years I feel like we are re-learning some of the dumb basics of politics like “some people split their tickets,” “it matters what the candidates say and do,” “small numbers of swing voters are a big deal in zero-sum elections.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Note that the people who predicted Dems would do well based on reading the turnout entrails were not actually correct; turnout favored Republicans but vote choice > turnout. — PolitiTweet.org

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Last week I said the NYT covers tech through a negativity lens. Kevin Roose on @DKThomp’s pod said I’m wrong. But look at his description of his own work! https://t.co/xN9gsPMCKV https://t.co/22CP37QYT4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Is it possible there is an independent marriage effect? Absolutely. I’d buy it for sure. But to demonstrate it you need more than a simple partisanship by marital status split or else it’s like saying that “living near water” (i.e. where the cities) makes you vote Dem. — PolitiTweet.org

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See a lot of people running with naive causal interpretations of the fact that unmarried women vote so much more Democratic — what if I told you they are younger, better educated, less religious, poorer, and less white than married women? — PolitiTweet.org

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What’s interesting to me is Republicans run all the time with unpopular positions on taxing the rich, but nobody in GOP politics no matter how moderate or populist or whatever questions that commitment. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AJentleson: I’m so proud of what we built @ericsaul22⁩ ⁦@jon_m_rob⁩. Voters made Elrich a lame duck with the weakest performance of any… — PolitiTweet.org

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The Netroots Remember! — PolitiTweet.org

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Self-audit: Was I too soft on questions about SBF and cryptocurrency because I admire and agree with his philanthropic work? [NB between when I wrote this post and today I did meet him briefly] I think this holds up. https://t.co/of5vwacTn5 https://t.co/030o1nOZMM — PolitiTweet.org

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Nature is healing. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kdrum: I have personally experienced zero change in Twitter so far. How many other people would say the same? Tens of millions? Hundred… — PolitiTweet.org

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@awprokop https://t.co/08foEZzbDf — PolitiTweet.org

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@realaxelfoley Oz is a lot richer, no stroke, I dunno is being a senator so great? — PolitiTweet.org

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@evanbear20 I believe so — PolitiTweet.org

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@minakimes It sounds like total BS! — PolitiTweet.org

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We’re getting a YIMBY champion in Santa Monica! https://t.co/wpIeSwsChZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@minakimes Point of clarification: DC has an unusual legal system where there’s no District Attorney. Normal criminal prosecutions are handled by the US Attorney but the DC AG does juvenile prosecutions and the Robinson suspects are teens. https://t.co/9AuXQgAbnU — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyways on some level I feel like the secret here was not very well kept https://t.co/rhsbKK8qWy https://t.co/sl5y95BKaS — PolitiTweet.org

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Every ten years or so someone comes up with the idea of “what if we basically did banking but without bank regulation?” and it’s always very lucrative until it ends in catastrophe. — PolitiTweet.org

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Two possibilities: 1. Biden and Val Demings personally invade Cuba as seen in Bad Boys 2. 2. Kevin McCarthy delivers on his stated plan to create a debt ceiling crisis whose purpose is to force large cuts in Social Security & Medicare. — PolitiTweet.org

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Walker may not be able to speak coherently but he’s absolutely fit enough to take Rick Scott’s marching orders on sunsetting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The point is that he’s bad not that his severe head trauma will prevent him from serving. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want a CTE-addled deadbeat in the senate to serve as a loyal footsoldier in Rick Scott’s war on Medicare & Social Security then back Walker, but if you want a champion for Medicaid expansion then join me in donating to Warnock. https://t.co/jpPHWeeqRC https://t.co/dxATSKt5eG — PolitiTweet.org

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Really disagree with this — to win the runoff it’s really helpful for Warnock to have hard money financial contributions he can use to buy digital and television ads to convey his message to the voters. https://t.co/VsjKVhlapk — PolitiTweet.org