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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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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 …
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Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
How Palin Could Win the 2012 GOP Nomination — Undoubtedly at this very moment, two saffron-robed monks in a monastery north of Katmandu are earnestly discussing Sarah Palin's presidential prospects. In the favelas of Rio, the normally fierce arguments about the World Cup and the 2016 Olympics …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Most Americans say Palin not qualified to serve as President — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Fewer than three in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin's qualified to be president, according to a new national poll - the least of any of the five potential candidates included in the survey.
Jon Cohen / Behind the Numbers:
Sarah Palin: new chapter, same challenges
Sarah Palin: new chapter, same challenges
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging Oprah — 4.57 pm. Now it's a love-fest between two celebrities with talk-shows. — 4.53 pm. “You don't need a title to make a difference.” Here again she uses the term “title” as opposed to “office.” She really does see politics as an extension of being a Beauty Queen …
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The Note:
Palin to Oprah: Levi Johnston Pursuing ‘Porn’ Career; ‘I Pray for Levi’ — ABC News' Rick Klein reports: — We wrote last week that, based on the initial clip distributed by Oprah Winfrey's shop, Sarah Palin seemed to be seeking a ceasefire with the father of her grandson.
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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Steve Clemons / Blogs and Stories:
The Assassination of Greg Craig — Blogs and Stories — The White House counsel was done in by a scurrilous leaks campaign. So much for the Obama team's pledge to be transparent, forthright and accountable for their actions. — Gregory Craig, White House counsel to President Obama …
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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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Megan McArdle:
Quote of the Day — Apparently Rush Limbaugh has called Sarah Palin's book “truly one of the most substantive policy books I've read”. Personally, I thought it was the finest spy novel since Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. — Before you start bashing me for being an elitist liberal …
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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Shields: I'm ‘Nostalgic’ For A ‘Manly Man’ President Who Will ‘Kick Some Tail And Ask Questions Afterwards’ — Since reports emerged last month that top commander in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal asked President Obama for upwards of 40,000 additional troops to continue the war there …
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Jarrett Renshaw / Morning Call:
Union troubled by Eagle Scout project in Allentown — After layoffs, SEIU president complains about city's use of volunteers, contractors — OF THE MORNING CALL — In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.
Robert D. Kaplan / The Atlantic Online:
Responding to Fort Hood — The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, in which 13 soldiers were shot and killed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, paradoxically took my memory back to April 2004, when I was embedded with a Marine battalion during the first battle of Fallujah.
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Cleric says he was confidant to Hasan
Cleric says he was confidant to Hasan
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Jobs ‘Saved or Created’ in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist — Recovery.gov Lists Millions Spent and Hundreds of Jobs Created in Districts Not on Map — Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending.
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke / Board of Governors …:
On the Outlook for the Economy and Policy — When I last spoke at the Economic Club of New York a little more than a year ago, the financial crisis had just taken a much more virulent turn. In my remarks at that time, I described the extraordinary actions that policymakers around the globe …
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Poll: Beau Biden Grabs Lead in Delaware Senate Race — This is one of the more surprising polls I've seen recently: Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of the vice president, is leading Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) in a hypothetical 2010 U.S. Senate matchup.
The Politico:
Medicare Part D: A health care success — Given the acrimony that's developed over efforts to reform our nation's health insurance system, many Americans wonder whether true bipartisan agreement on health reform can ever be possible. In short, it can. And the proof is in the success …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Putting Health Reform Fiscal Issues in Perspective
Putting Health Reform Fiscal Issues in Perspective
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Ezra Klein
Matthew Jaffe / ABCNEWS:
ABC News Exclusive: Obama Admin Slashed 60,000 Jobs From Recent Stimulus Report — Office of Management & Budget Document: 12 Stimulus Recipients Reported ‘Unrealistic Job Data’ — The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan …
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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 …
Nouriel Roubini / Nouriel Roubini's Global …:
The Worst is yet to Come: Unemployed Americans Should Hunker Down for More Job Losses — From the Daily News: — Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% and another 200,000 jobs …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
The Rationing Commission — Meet the unelected body that will dictate future medical decisions. — Printer — Friendly — As usual, the most dangerous parts of ObamaCare aren't receiving the scrutiny they deserve—and one of the least examined is a new commission to tell Congress how to control health spending.
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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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Report: More Americans going hungry — The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a federal report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children.
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Prairie Weather
The Washington Independent:
A Tea Party Candidate Promises Fiorina a Fight — DeVore Rallies Base in Challenge Against Former Hewlett Packard CEO — Carly Fiorina announced her 2010 campaign for California's U.S. Senate seat in the usual way. She rolled out a new Website. She bounded across a stage at a …
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Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
Reset Button — The gaffes of Hillary Clinton. — When Barack Obama tapped Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state, the typical reaction came in two stages. The first was to think it was nuts. How could two blood rivals possibly make good foreign policy together?