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Having trouble viewing this email? Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Inside RCP Polls Videos Issues Comments Links World Markets Sports March 1, 2011 You can always find the latest political news at RealClearPolitics.com. Top 5 Stories on RealClearPolitics Political Math: Washington - Money = Plus for States - Gerald Seib, WSJ The federal government isn't simply bleeding money. Because of its addiction to red ink, it's bleeding power, which is starting to flow away... Job Protection, 2012-Style - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post For all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, Republicans are assembling what looks like a remarkably weak field of candidat... Walker, Christie Talking Like Adults on Budget - Gene Healy, Examiner "An adult conversation" -- that's what we need to have about spending, President Obama proclaimed at a Feb. 15 presser. The president... Pensions Under Strain, States Eye 401k Plans - Steven Greenhouse, NYT Lawmakers and governors in many states, faced with huge shortfalls in employee pension funds, are turning to a strategy that a lot of private companie... AWOL Dems Defy Ballot Box - Nolan Finley, Detroit News American-style democracy holds together because no matter how nasty the political game gets, the players honor a few inviolable rules. We obey the l... More Opinion and Analysis Pawlenty Releases Tea Party-Themed Video - Scott Conroy On the heels of his speech at the Tea Party Patriots' policy summit in Phoenix over the weekend, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has released... GOP Tactic: Intramural Class Warfare - Richard Reeves BOSTON -- Mitch Daniels, the new governor of Indiana, is probably the smartest of the new crop of Republican governors determined to bring public emp... Obama, DOMA, and Constitutional Responsibility - Matthew Franck Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign on February 10, 2007, in Springfield, Illinois, the hometown and burial place of Abraham Lincoln. In ... MORE ON REAL CLEAR Organized Labor: On the Way to Obsolescence? - RealClearMarkets What we are witnessing in Wisconsin and elsewhere is the death knell of Big Labor. Once upon a time, most Americans could identify the head of the AFL... The Best Revolution Money Can Buy - RealClearWorld "This time they're being more careful," said  an old friend of mine as we sat in the White House Pizzeria on a lazy, sunny Sunday afternoon in no... Like Old Times for Tennis ... Almost - RealClearSports You can't go home again. Thomas Wolfe's words are embedded in the American consciousness as we toil daily with our unique, national, and confused rela... LATEST VIDEO Pawlenty Web Video: Tea Party: A New Birth Of Freedom Herman Cain: "Identify Whole Programs To Cut" Charlie Cook: Dems Have Two "Tough" Senate Cycles In 2012 & 2014 RCP POLL AVERAGES Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread President Obama 49.2 44.5 +4.7 Congress 27.5 64.5 -37.0 Unsubscribe from this newsletter.