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Setting Clear Priorities Will Be Key for Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook December 20, 2012 CommentPresident Obama's administration is brimming with new initiatives, creating a fresh sense of possibility at the White House but also alarming Washington veterans who wonder if he is asking too much of himself, his staff, and especially Congress. The challenge for Obama will be to set clear priorities rather than allow his wish list to get bogged down in a capital that has trouble dealing with more than one or two major issues at a time.
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Barack Obama's (Lack of) Christmas 'Vacation'
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2012 CommentAnother Washington ritual is about to begin — bashing the president for leaving town on vacation.
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Americans Want Solutions, Not Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2012 CommentBudget negotiators, beware. What Americans want in the ongoing talks is common-sense compromise, not posturing or allowing personal pique to shape important decisions.
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Obama Returns to Role of Comforter in Chief
Tweet Share on Facebook December 17, 2012 CommentLeading the nation in mourning has become an unfortunate but necessary part of the modern presidency, as Barack Obama has learned over the past four years.
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Obama's Bottom-Up Fiscal Cliff Campaign
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2012 CommentPresident Barack Obama is taking his economic message to the grassroots. Most recently, he gave interviews to local television anchors in Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Sacramento in hopes of swaying legislators by generating pressure from the voters back home. The interviews aired Thursday evening in the local markets.
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The Education of a President
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2012 CommentPresident Obama has learned a thing or two about Washington during his first four years in office—notably that sometimes it's best to cut your losses and move on to bigger things. This is what happened in the Susan Rice case as Obama decided that pushing for Rice as secretary of state would alienate too many legislators and jeopardize his larger agenda on Capitol Hill.
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Study: Not Enough White Voters to Save the GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2012 CommentA new study says Republicans are in dire straits because the party is so unpopular among Latinos.
"Republicans have run out of persuadable white voters," says the analysis by the conservative Resurgent Republic and the Hispanic Leadership Network. "For the fifth time in the past six presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. Trying to win a national election by gaining a larger and larger share of a smaller and smaller portion of the electorate is a losing political proposition."
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Republicans Outmatched in Fiscal Cliff Talks
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2012 CommentRepublicans are headed for a severe setback if their budget confrontation with President Obama results in the government going over the fiscal cliff on January 1.
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The Musical Chairs in Obama's Second-Term Cabinet
Tweet Share on Facebook December 12, 2012 CommentPresident Obama's cabinet selections for a second term will say a lot about his intended path over the next four years, such as whether he will take a liberal or a centrist approach, and whether he will continue to prize diversity in his inner circle.
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Obama Has Leverage On Congressional Republicans
Tweet Share on Facebook December 11, 2012 CommentPresident Barack Obama's strategists are increasingly convinced he will win a big victory over Republicans in the current budget showdown, and as a result his position will be enhanced going into the congressional battles of 2013.
A budget win would give Obama more leverage almost across the board, Democratic advisers say, because he would be dealing from a position of newly acquired strength. "And if the Republicans keep protecting the rich, they will be seen as more out of touch than ever," says a senior Democratic strategist.
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