Alexander Furnas

@SenCarlLevin And 100% of people who are me think that using normal business to extract political/ideological gains is reprehensible.

@derekwillis @tjl easy to see everyone is talking about the shutdown, harder to see if two sides are converging in statistically sig ways

@derekwillis @tjl the issue is operationalizing the kind of similarity we care about vs. kinds of similarity we don't.

@Liberationtech ridiculous hubris.

@nancybaym @EvanSelinger guaranteed the big data version exists already.

The 1,000 donors most likely to benefit from McCutcheon — and what they are most likely to do http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/02/top1000donors/ … via @sunfoundation

This is the most incorrect thing written about the Shutdown that you will read all day: http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/30/maybe-it-would-be-better-to-shut-down-th … via @reason

@barrywellman @smwat Master's thesis.

How many donors will benefit if the Supreme Court allows unlimited campaign contributions? http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/01/mccutcheon/ … via @sunfoundation

@beccarosen @eleanorbarkhorn always

@cwabobmaster @KatrinaNation Until 2010 it was actually the democrats whose representation surpassed their vote share http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/10/2012-unusual/ …

@JusticeLawDev @raulpacheco You can't apply quantitative methods without it either.