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Scott Rasmussen / Wall Street Journal:
The Polls Show That Reaganism Is Not Dead — Barack Obama won the White House by campaigning against an unpopular incumbent in a time of economic anxiety and lingering foreign policy concerns. He offered voters an upbeat message, praised the nation as a land of opportunity …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Franklin Delano Obama? — Suddenly, everything old is New Deal again. Reagan is out; F.D.R. is in. Still, how much guidance does the Roosevelt era really offer for today's world? — The answer is, a lot. But Barack Obama should learn from F.D.R.'s failures as well as from his achievements …
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Bush leaving office more unpopular than Nixon — CNN Deputy Political Director — WASHINGTON DC (CNN) — On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Bold Is Good — Just about everyone is giving President-elect Barack Obama advice based on one interpretation or another of what his victory really means. Obama should be wary of any counsel that the advice-givers had in mind before a single vote was counted.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Obama and Bush: A Contrast in Popularity — Transition marked by sharp divergence in leaders' ratings — USA - Election 2008 - Favorability - Government and Politics - Presidential Job Approval - Americas - Northern America — PRINCETON, NJ — Monday's White House meeting between …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:FOOT ON THE GAS.... Not surprisingly, Barack Obama is getting …
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Associated Press:
Obama plans Guantanamo closure, US terror trials — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials …
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Bloomberg:
Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Identify Bank Loans — Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.
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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Palin reflects on her run — The defeat, the future and the critics are all addressed — Gov. Sarah Palin blames the Bush administration for the failure of the McCain-Palin ticket, thinks people need to move on from the so-called “Troopergate” controversy and has no regrets about state per diem …
Paul Walsh / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
From tight to tighter: Franken now just 204 votes behind — Al Franken's deficit just keeps on shrinking as the state adjusts the unofficial tally in the U.S. Senate election last week. — Today's latest results show the DFL challenger is now trailing Republican incumbent Norm Coleman by 204 votes.
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Dean Prepares To Step Down As DNC Chair — After four years at the helm of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean is preparing to relinquish his chairmanship. — Dean, who has been serving in the post since 2005, has said in the past that he would serve only one term …
William Kristol / New York Times:
G.O.P. Dog Days? — Just before midnight on Nov. 4, I wasn't that worried. — Sure, the election results had been bad — but they weren't devastating. Obama wasn't winning the popular vote by double-digit margins, as some polls had suggested he might. Republican losses in the Senate …
Bob Lewis / Associated Press:
Former DNC chief files candidate papers in Va — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe signed papers Monday signaling a possible run for governor next year in Virginia. — McAuliffe told The Associated Press he set up a campaign committee …
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks — With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy — The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration's request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry.
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Biden's new role: Good cop — A few days before the election, a Democratic strategist privately worried that a Vice-President Joe Biden was destined for a White House career of dissatisfaction and idle-hands mischief. — “You can't just have a guy like him at loose ends, he'd go crazy,” …
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Agenda disappears from Obama Web site — Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site. — Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration …
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Nonny Mouse / Crooks and Liars:
Want to Win the War in Afghanistan? Forget Guns - Think Pomegranates. — James Brett is an Englishman who, in 1999 while on a business trip to Peshawar in the north west province of Pakistan, had his first glass of pomegranate juice, and fell in love with it.
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Andrew / Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State:
The myth of poor Democratic performance in House races in the 2008 election — There's an idea going around that the Democrats turned in a disappointing performance in Congressional races this year. For example, a politically-minded friend of mine of the liberal persuasion wrote …
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