Michael Barone - Americans relate to Founders, not Progressives
The massive unpopularity of the Obama Democrats' programs suggests that view of history is defective. Let me propose another, starting with the Founding Fathers.
The Founders believed there was a tension between representative government and the right to life, liberty and property. So they wrote the Fifth Amendment to insure that no citizen was deprived of those rights without due process of law.
Chris Stirewalt - Obama disappoints even lowered expectations
The second phase of the great American disillusionment with Barack Obama is complete.
The president fell to Earth a year ago after his stratospheric rise because Americans came to see that he was like other politicians.
Byron York - Why does Washington Post need a reporter to cover conservatives?
One question that hasn't received enough attention in the whole David Weigel/Washington Post brouhaha is whether the Post needs a reporter to cover the conservative beat in the first place. There's been a lot of discussion of what kind of reporter would be best on the beat -- a conservative, a liberal, or someone studiously uncommitted? -- but there has been less talk about why such a reporter is needed at all, or whether there should even be a conservative beat.
Michael Barone - In mostly-white battlegrounds, Obama likely has Bush-like numbers
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll this week shows Barack Obama with a negative 45%-48% job rating. But as the Wall Street Journal story notes, Obama’s job rating among black voters is 91% positive. A lttle back of the envelope arithmetic suggests that Obama’s job rating among the 88% or 89% of non-black respondents is about 39% positive and 54% negative.
That’s pretty weak — a whole lot more negative than the numbers you usually see for all voters.
This is hugely relevant to the 2010 elections. Most of the states with seriously contested Senate races or Democratic seats that seem almost certain to go Republican have below-national-average black percentages. Exceptions: Arkansas (where polls show Democrat Blanche Lincoln well behind), Florida, and Illinois.
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