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Having trouble viewing this email? Friday, January 7, 2011 Inside RCP Polls Videos Issues Comments Links World Markets Sports January 7, 2011 You can always find the latest political news at RealClearPolitics.com. 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... LATEST VIDEO Howard Fineman: Obama Now The "Ultimate Chicago Player" Robinson: Bachmann Has Record Of Saying "Crazy Ass" Things O'Reilly On Figuring Out The Constitution RCP POLL AVERAGES Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread President Obama 46.3 48.3 -2.0 Congress 19.6 74.0 -54.4 Unsubscribe from this newsletter.