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Reading This Week's Political Tea Leaves
By Karl Rove | The Wall Street JournalNovember 10, 2011
Events of the past week may offer a glimpse of what lies ahead for the GOP and for a beleaguered president and his party. Two Ohio ballot propositions showed the Buckeye State remains a bellwether of American politics. Sixty-one percent of Ohioans overturned Republican Gov. John Kasich's efforts to rein in public-employee unions, handing labor (a
2012 Should Be About Ideas, Not GOP Star Power
By Peter Roff | U.S. News and World ReportNovember 9, 2011
By asking Americans to consider whether or not they were "better off than they were four years ago," Ronald Reagan deftly turned the 1980 election into a referendum on the Carter years.
People tend to forget, but up until the incumbent president and the former California governor faced off in their one and only debate, Carter held the lead in most
Poll: Seven out of ten voters say country on wrong track, majority say Obama shouldn’t be re-elected
By Jamie Weinstein | The Daily CallerNovember 8, 2011
Seven out of ten registered voters say the country is on the wrong track and a majority says that President Obama doesn’t deserve to be re-elected, according to a poll set to be released Tuesday that has been obtained in full exclusively by The Daily Caller.
Morning Score: November 8, 2011
By James Hohmann | PoliticoNovember 8, 2011
SNEAK PEEK — RESURGENT REPUBLIC POLL SHOWS TROUBLE FOR OBAMA: Resurgent Republic, releasing a new national survey this morning, found that most voters believe the country is worse off than when President Obama took office. If President Obama's reelection campaign is a referendum on the incumbent, the conservative group is confident he is
