Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

One of the weirdest ideas in American politics is that people would like a candidate *more* if some total strangers working on his behalf called you up or knocked on your door at random times to interrupt your day. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DouthatNYT Right now we have a historically unusual situation in which the senate skews right, and the electoral college skews right, and house gerrymanders skew right, and state legislature gerrymanders skew right, and the courts skew right. Progressives say that's bad. Conservatives say? — PolitiTweet.org

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@DouthatNYT What's changed is the senate didn't used to have a particular partisan skew! — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe if Dems reverted to their 2008 issue positions they could win elections by such overwhelming majorities that they'd reliably control the senate and the state legislatures in WI & MI. But Dems are asking, why shouldn't "winning more votes than the other guy" be enough? — PolitiTweet.org

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What's changed on the right is that conservatives have become increasingly reliant on and comfortable with anti-dem… https://t.co/PUmCffG7kt — PolitiTweet.org

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This is an important reality check for a lot of progressives. But I also think that when talking about the past 1… https://t.co/KW9s9dBkpI — PolitiTweet.org

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I've seen takes you people wouldn't believe. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In some cities, houses filter down (i.e., get cheaper as they age) while in others they “filter up” (i.e., gentrification and displacement). Correlations with supply elasticity and Wharton index of land use regulation. https://t.co/Mjcjl3NpGe https://t.co/OGsP6zqrOa — PolitiTweet.org

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Feeling aggrieved about needing to pay a parking ticket even though I was 100 percent in the wrong. I think today’s the day I finally became a Real American instead of a deracinated urbanite. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lymanstoneky I think you should distinguish between bomb-throwing-ness and policy moderation. Trump on most topics I would say is less extreme than Romney, even though Romney is a much more congenial person qua person. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Nearly seven in 10 (69 percent) of women say they would be unwilling to date someone whose views of the president did not align with their own.” https://t.co/0m91qKCY2s — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattduss He won’t even help Venezuelan immigrants! https://t.co/RnctwWRfHJ — PolitiTweet.org

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And what’s fascinating is that *Romney himself* has really stood out from the pack and not seen it that way. He has all kinds of ideas I think are wrong or bad but also this week upheld the notion that right & wrong exist and the rule of law matters. Good for him! — PolitiTweet.org

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As far as I can tell, it’s 100 percent sincere though. Conservatives believe not only that some hits on Romney we… https://t.co/wwVaLKTucN — PolitiTweet.org

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I cannot overstate the extent to which the volume of whining about this makes it extremely hard to take conservatives seriously. — PolitiTweet.org

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🎉🎉🎉 https://t.co/XTwLINHbWB — PolitiTweet.org

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American campaign finance rules about coordination are so absurd. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet I guess this will be the orthodox lefty take and maybe I should embrace it too. — PolitiTweet.org

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Again, not to deny that there is anti-Bernie sentiment (Hillary keeps reminding us how she feels) but the plain reading of events is that it is just not deeply felt enough to overcome modestly difficult coordination problems and ego issues. — PolitiTweet.org

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My forecast: No great anti-Bernie plot will emerge (plenty of random grumbling though) and he's going to win and then we'll see what happens in November. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here in a non-joking way: A good way for "Democratic elites" to stop Bernie would have been for Obama & Hillary to endorse Joe Biden and for donors to have given Joe Biden tons of money. The fact that those things aren't happening shows anti-Bernie zeal is in fact limited. — PolitiTweet.org

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Why didn’t Ben Carson get a seat? — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead of arguing about which state should “go first” how about all the states vote on the same day? — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m glad to see everyone tweeting the one Gallup poll of Trump’s approval rating rather than relying on a boring average. — PolitiTweet.org

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Republicans are spreading conspiracy theories that Bernie was robbed, but of the major Democratic campaigns it’s the *Biden* camp that’s come closest to questioning the results. — PolitiTweet.org

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KEY RACE ALERT: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — PolitiTweet.org

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[INT: wine cave beneath DNC HQ] Perez: Let’s rig it against Bernie by having our top bundlers and elected officials all endorse Joe Biden. Tara McGowan: I’ve got a better idea involving an app and the mayor of the 4th largest city in Indiana. Obama: I love it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Next time, each of the 1000+ precinct chiefs should just tweet out the results in an unstructured way and let everyone scramble around online to figure out what’s happening. — PolitiTweet.org

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Charts and graphs that will finally make it real; https://t.co/ULWXpO2e1d — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Long-simmering ACRONYM vs Priorities USA tensions finally going to break through? — PolitiTweet.org