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Having trouble viewing this email? Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Inside RCP Polls Videos Issues Comments Links World Markets Sports February 23, 2011 You can always find the latest political news at RealClearPolitics.com. Top 5 Stories on RealClearPolitics Labor Battles Spread Across Midwest - Tavernise & Sulzberger, NY Times First Wisconsin. Now Ohio and Indiana. Battles with public employees' unions spread on Tuesday, with Republican-dominated Legislatures pressing b... Obama's Agenda Facing a Governors' Revolt - Noemie Emery, DC Examiner Picture a hand on the wheel of the great ship of state, pushing it hard in a certain direction, say, to the left. It belongs to the president. Pic... WI Only Part of GOP War on Unions - Harold Meyerson, Washington Post Wisconsin is just the tip of the iceberg. The Republican war on unions goes far beyond Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to end collective-bargaining r... Public Unions: A 50-Year Mistake - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times The protesting public school teachers with fake doctor's notes swarming the Capitol building in Madison, Wis., insist that Gov. Scott Walker is h... GOP's War on Labor Unions Will Backfire - Markos Moulitsas, The Hill It took fewer than 50 days for the rash of newly inaugurated Republican governors to turn their sights on their biggest boogeyman - labor unions. By t... More Opinion and Analysis Emanuel Handily Wins Chicago Mayoral Election - Alex Katz CHICAGO -- Following a campaign in which he frequently faced doubts about his residency status and accusations of carpetbagging, Rahm Emanuel's ... Union Disputes Spread to Indiana, Ohio - Erin McPike As the labor standoff between Republicans and Democrats continues in Wisconsin, reports in Indiana show that some Democratic lawmakers have fled the ... GOPers Amplify Rebukes on Obama's Handling of Mideast - Scott Conroy After a collective reaction to the White House's handling of the revolution in Egypt that was for the most part muted and sometimes deferential ... MORE ON REAL CLEAR Collective Bargaining Doesn't Work In the Public Sector - RealClea rMarkets Shortly after California voters passed Proposition 13 in 1978, open warfare broke out in the union movement between leaders of public and private work... Obama's Complicated Mideast Multitasking - RealClearWorld The ongoing protests in the Middle East have opened up new possibilities for real change and reform throughout the region, but the protests obviously ... NBA's All About Glamour Teams - RealClearSports So, Denver, the city and the team, symbolically lies bleeding and battered. It was overmatched and under-financed. The NBA is a league for the Big Guy... LATEST VIDEO Donald Rumsfeld And Andrea Mitchell Spar On Iraq Gov. Christie: State Benefits Are Out Of Control Union President Defends Wisconsin Teachers' 'Sick Out' RCP POLL AVERAGES Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread President Obama 48.8 45.3 +3.5 Congress 25.8 67.0 -41.2 Unsubscribe from this newsletter.