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January 7, 2011
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Top 5 Stories on RealClearPolitics
The Benjamin Button Congress - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
President Obama's greatest political failure during his first two years was his inability to convince most Americans, especially most white Ame...
The Rise of Constitutionalism - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
For decades, Democrats and Republicans fought over who owns the American flag. Now they're fighting over who owns the Constitution.The flag deba...
GOP's Fetishizing of the Constitution Is Unsettling - Alex Altman, Time
After much hullabaloo, the 112th Congress kicked off its second day as promised: by reading the Constitution aloud on the House floor for the first ti...
The Chicago Way Rolls on at the White House - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
As President Barack Obama knighted Chicago's William Daley as his new chief of staff - and kept the Daley machine in control of the executive br...
The Underpaid Gibbs & DC's Sense of Entitlement - Walter Shapiro, PD
With the capital awash in star-spangled sentiment this week, it seems appropriate to recall a patriotic parable so dangerous that it undermines the ...
More Opinion and Analysis
Poll Suggests Trouble for Ensign in 2012 - Scott Conroy
A new poll conducted by the Democratically affiliated firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows troubling numbers for Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign...
Defusing a Sociological Bomb - Eugene Robinson
WASHINGTON -- Race still matters in America and justice is not completely blind. Anyone who believes otherwise should examine the case of Cornelius D...
Washington Goes Supply-Side - Larry Kudlow
"Stop the bad stuff" is what John Boehner told a bunch of us at breakfast a few weeks before the election. That's how he defined the G...
MORE ON REAL CLEAR
A Defense of High-Frequency Trading - RealClearMarkets
Wired magazine and the New York Times both recently published detailed stories on "flash trading" - the increasing use of high speed artificial intell...
Face Strident China With Realism - RealClearWorld
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will visit China next week, seeking to improve strained relations between Washington and Beijing. He faces an u...
Stanford's Luck Able to Do What He Wanted - RealClearSports
So the kid with the golden arm will wait another year for the gold. Andrew Luck is going to play again for Stanford. A reassuring tale when compared t...
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Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread
President Obama 46.3 48.3 -2.0
Congress 19.6 74.0 -54.4
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