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Four More Years

Source: Investors Insight, Nov 10 2012, 2:40pm CST

There have been many competing analyses of the results of the election last Tuesday. I am still trying to absorb the longer-term implications. One of the more thought-provoking pieces I read was from my friends at GaveKal. Four of their ...

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7 hours ago

GOP scandal-mongering making Obama more popular, GOP most unpopular in CNN polling history

Source: Daily Kos  |   May 20 2013, 4:16pm CDT

The American people can't be bothered to care that some reporters were spied on. This is not GOP "scandal-mongering." It's an actual scandal, sherlock. on journalism in with the other 2? Because while the AP wiretapping is a bad thing, it is also mani ...

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7 hours ago

Opinion: The not-so-moderate Governor Christie

Source: NorthJersey.com  |   May 20 2013, 3:50pm CDT

WHEN Governor Christie was asked in mid-May about his political bona fides, he replied, “I’m a damn good Republican and a good conservative Republican.” Believe what he says — especially the “conservative” part. Sure, Christie goes out of his way to say ...

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7 hours ago

The (Slow, Tentative) Greening of the GOP

Source: The Atlantic  |   May 20 2013, 3:31pm CDT

Each January, when Congress gavels a new session to order, the party in charge rolls out a series of bills laying out its political agenda -- and often they're predictable variations on well-worn themes. So it was ...

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11 hours ago

Obama Approval Rating Is Officially ‘Scandal’ Proof

Source: The Inquisitr  |   May 20 2013, 11:33am CDT

President Obama’s approval rating remains at over 50 percent despite constant GOP scandal mongering, and it seems attempts to disrupt the early days of his second term with a three-headed scandal beast has not hurt t ...

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13 hours ago

Obama's support steady during firestorm

Source: MSNBC Blogs  |   May 20 2013, 9:53am CDT

I mentioned last week that President Obama's poll numbers would almost certainly drop in the face of intense criticism. Even if there are no meaningful allegations of wrongdoing involving the White House, when the public h ...

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13 hours ago

Tea party looks to take advantage of moment

Source: KHOU.com  |   May 20 2013, 9:37am CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa—Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement’s leaders certainly think so. They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their g ...

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14 hours ago

The Road to the Republican Senate Majority is Easier than You Think

Source: The Rothenberg Political Report  |   May 20 2013, 8:30am CDT

Republicans don’t need to win a single state that Barack Obama won in 2012 in order to have a majority in the Senate after the midterm elections. That means all of the analysis about Republicans’ inability to appeal to swing voters or ...

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15 hours ago

Ken Cuccinelli finds a soul mate for a running mate

Source: Daily Kos  |   May 20 2013, 8:22am CDT

Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia Republican Party's right-wing nut job gubernatorial candidate, has a new BFF: The newly minted Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia once compared Planned Par ...

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17 hours ago

New York Times editorial calls for Obama to get moving on climate

Source: Grist  |   May 20 2013, 6:13am CDT

The prospects for broad-based Congressional action putting a price on carbon emissions are nil. The House is run by people who care little for environmental issues generally, and Senate Republicans who once fa ...

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19 hours ago

That’s Right: Chris Christie is a ‘Good Conservative Republican’

Source: The American Conservative  |   May 20 2013, 3:58am CDT

John Nichols of the Nation makes what should be, but is not (for reasons I’ll attempt to explain below), an obvious point about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: Christie also knows his party won’t be looking for a Northeastern moderate in 2 ...

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