Ron Paul rising? [The New York Times]
Representative Paul Ryan set to release a new plan that would save Medicare. [The Washington Post]
How Jeff Bezos built Amazon.com [Forbes]
Ron Paul rising? [The New York Times] Representative Paul Ryan set to release a new plan that would save Medicare. [The Washington Post] How Jeff Bezos built Amazon.com [Forbes]
Mikhail Gorbachev calls for a re-do of the recent Russian election. [The Daily Telegraph] Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in prison. [The New York Times] Police clear out the Occupy New Orleans camp. [Fox News] 120 Pearl Harbor survivors gather to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack. [Yahoo News] Contributing RP, and former Virginia Congressional candidate Krystal Ball, took on hopeful GOP kingmaker Donald Trump on MSNBC yesterday. Our favorite line? “To call (Trump) a clown is unfair to clowns.” Watch below: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
If you ask some on the right (as well as more than a few depressed Democrats), Obama is toast. The data to support their case are straightforward: no president (since the advent of modern survey research) has beenreelected with an approval rating below 48 percent. Obama’s numbers these days are below that threshold and are just south of Jimmy Carter’s at this point in his presidency. Furthermore, the highest unemployment rate that accompanied a president’s reelection is 7.2 percent, a far cry from today’s 9 percent. Republican voters are more excited. Young voters aren’t going to show upwhen their unemployment rate is through the roof. Not to mention, the new electoral college map handsRepublicans six freebie electors if they simply hold the states McCain won in 2008. Simple conclusion: the Obama reelection effort is doomed. Or is it?
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Newt Gingrich officially becomes the latest “Non-Romney.” [Washington Times] America’s spy agencies plan a more muted series of holiday parties due to the economy. [Washington Post] Suspicions are building around the group of stockbrokers who won the Connecticut Lottery. [CNBC]
(Cross-posted, with author’s permission, from Politico’s Arena)
Gender, race and ideology in modern politics. [New York Times] Another GOP debate takes place tonight, and Herman Cain will be in attendance. [CNBC] Two of Herman Cain’s accusers are planning a joint news conference. [Washington Post] The Oscar Awards appear to be in crisis with Eddie Murphy’s resignation as host. [Deadline.com]
Rick Perry’s WTF moment: the only political video you need to see this week. [You Tube] One of Nancy Pelosi’s aides goes into a rage over plastic surgery rumors. [Washington Examiner] Herman Cain blames Rick Perry as more sexual harassment claims emerge from Cain’s past. [New York Times]
Did Jay Leno go easy on President Obama on The Tonight Show? [The Daily Beast] Thomas Friedman believes the President’s foreign policy earns him the name “Barack Kissinger Obama.” [New York Times] Would adding Marco Rubio to a republican presidential ticket be risky? [Washington Post] The Caddie Hall of fame is leaving Florida for Chicago. [Orlando Sentinal]
Is New Hampshire about to blow up the presidential primary calendar? [Washington Post] Herman Cain says his fellow GOP candidates are “getting on my last nerve.” [Real Clear Politics] “Body Politics”: it’s not just what the candidates say that matters. [Associated Press] The latest and greatest from Jon Stewart. [The Daily Show] |
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