What will it take to get Hillary Clinton into a 2012 run?
The answer can be found in the top item on the secretary of state's itinerary this week: Afghanistan.
Over the last eight years, most Democratic politicians have made a distinction between the Good War (Afghanistan) and the Bad War (Iraq).
Substantial majorities of Republican voters consider both to be wars worth fighting, while majorities of Democratic voters disagree.
What's most interesting is the switch among Democratic voters. A year ago 41 percent of them thought Afghanistan was worth fighting for, while only 12 percent felt that way about Iraq. In this month's polls, the corresponding numbers were 36 percent and 29 percent. The Good War/Bad War distinction is disappearing.
Top Republicans are forecasting big wins in November and could even take over the majority in the House, but still struggle to say how they would run the government.
The lack of a unified Republican agenda has left the party vulnerable to attacks by Democrats, who on Sunday were all too happy to fill in the blanks with their version of a GOP agenda that would back tax cuts for the rich and return to the policies of the unpopular Bush administration.
As amazing as it may seem, there’s considerable evidence that Joe Caldert, a plumber from St. Francis, Kan., submitted the design which was the basis for BP’s at least temporarily successful effort to stop the flow of oil.
As it continues its exponential expansion to cellphones, mobile advertising, television sets and book publishing internet giant Google has been simultaneously expanding its presence in the U.S. political scene, adding lobbyists, DC-based employees, and ramping up its campaign donations.
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