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Gary Langer / The Numbers:
Sarah Palin: Rogue for President? — Gary Langer is director of polling at ABC News, where he's covered the beat of public opinion for nearly 20 years - conducting and analyzing ABC News polls, evaluating data from other sources and setting the news division's standards for poll reporting.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The most important number in (Palin) politics today — That's the percentage of people who had a strongly favorable (20 percent) or strongly unfavorable (34 percent) view of Sarah Palin in a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, the latest piece of data that suggests the intensity …
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Jon Cohen / Behind the Numbers:
Sarah Palin: new chapter, same challenges — If Sarah Palin's book tour is an opening salvo in a run for the presidency in 2012, she faces a steep uphill climb: a majority of Americans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll say they would “definitely not vote for her.”
Rasmussen Reports:
59% of GOP Voters Say Palin Shares Their Values — Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Republican voters say former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin shares the values of most GOP voters throughout the nation. — A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 21% of Republican voters disagree …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
An Open Dish Challenge To Palin — Well, she has now thrown down a gauntlet that the Dish will be very eager to take up in the next few days. — Yesterday the AP ran a story describing some of the contents of the book, and arguing that many assertions in it are, like so much of what Palin has said, empirically untrue.
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Melanie Kirkpatrick / Wall Street Journal:Her Side of the Story — McCain aides kept her out of the loop …
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Tony Romm / Congress Blog:The Big Question: What must Palin accomplish on her book tour?
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Rove Attacks Obama For Bowing: He Should Do What All Presidents Have Done And ‘Not Bow To Monarchies’ — This morning on Fox & Friends, former Bush adviser Karl Rove appeared on the program to bash President Obama for paying a respectful bow before the Japanese Emperor.
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David Frum / CNN:
Republicans heading for a spectacular bloodbath in Florida — Editor's note: David Frum, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was a special assistant to President George W. Bush in 2001-2002. He is the author of six books, including “Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again,” and the editor of FrumForum.com.
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New York Times:
Obama Pushes Rights With Chinese Students — SHANGHAI — He didn't explicitly call on China's leaders to lift the veil of state control that restricts Internet access and online social networking here. But President Obama did tiptoe — ever so lightly — into that controversial topic …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
World Out of Balance — International travel by world leaders is mainly about making symbolic gestures. Nobody expects President Obama to come back from China with major new agreements, on economic policy or anything else. — But let's hope that when the cameras aren't rolling Mr. Obama …
John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:
The KSM Trial Will Be an Intelligence Bonanza for al Qaeda — The government will have to choose between vigorous prosecution and revealing classified sources and methods. — Printer — Friendly — 'This is a prosecutorial decision as well as a national security decision," …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court refuses to hear Redskins' naming case — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a lawsuit on behalf of Native American activists who claimed that the Washington Redskins' team name is so offensive that it does not deserve trademark protection.
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Johanna Blakley / The Politico:
Can Winfrey, Palin save each other? — Were there ever two women who needed each other more but whose political differences were so starkly different? Can Sarah Palin help stanch Oprah Winfrey's slipping ratings? Can Winfrey come to the rescue of Palin's tattered political reputation?
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Opponents of health-care effort look to fund a critical economic study — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an assortment of national business groups opposed to President Obama's health-care reform effort are collecting money to finance an economic study that could be used to portray …
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Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
We should worry that Tracey Emin Hugh Osmond and Michael Caine are fleeing the 50p tax rate — The 50p tax rate will be a disaster for the economy - taking us back to the dark days of the 1970s, says Boris Johnson. — Not everyone will miss her as much as I will.
Michael Shain / New York Post:
Source: CNN wanted Lou out — CNN ‘wanted him out’ — CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave, The Post has learned. — “They wanted him out,” according to a source. — Dobbs, who a source said had a year and a half to go on his $12 million contract …
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Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform — Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years.
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Cleric says he was confidant to Hasan — In Yemen, al-Aulaqi tells of e-mail exchanges, says he did not instigate rampage — SANAA, YEMEN — In his first interview with a journalist since the Fort Hood rampage, Yemeni American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi said that he neither ordered nor pressured …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
With Great Political Independence Comes Great Responsibility not to Mire the Country in Double-Digit Unemployment — Yesterday David Ignatius accused Chris Dodd of wanting to politicize the Federal Reserve's control of monetary policy. Kevin Drum points out that Ignatius has this wrong.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
The Lloyd's Prayer — From an email making its way around Wall Street this morning: — Our Chairman, — Who Art At Goldman, — Blankfein Be Thy Name. — The Rally's Come. God's Work Be Done — On Earth As There's No Fear Of Correction. — Give Us This Day Our Daily Gains,
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