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Obama Primary Challenge Talk Comically Innocent Compared To What Clinton Faced

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- When former President Bill Clinton visits the White House on Friday, both he and Obama will have no shortage of political conversation t...

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How to Recover From a "Shellacking"

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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Danny Groner

Many media outlets are calling the president's fat lip a metaphor for the president's post-midterm state. How can Obama get back on track now that he's been bruised?

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The Empire Strikes Back: Explaining the Republican Wave

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Deepak Bhargava

What a difference two years make. In 2008, President Obama swept into office on a platform of hope and change. All across America, there was a groun...

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The 2010 Election: Bill Clinton Is the New "One"

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Steve Clemons

Obama would be very smart to begin calling on some of the people he has been distant from and who could give him the smart counsel he has until now stayed away from. Bill Clinton would top my list.

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To Doom or Not to Doom

Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Will Durst

Doom. Impending doom. Deep dark impending Democratic Party doom. Losing one if not both houses of Congress- deep dark impending Democratic Party doom....

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What Levy vs. Lazio Has to Do With Beating a Cuomo

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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John R. Bohrer

Steve Levy is picking up some support from New York and national Republicans, though bet on Rick Lazio to be the GOP nominee for NY governor, for no other reason than that we've seen this movie before -- in 1994.

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Health Care Reform and the Radicalization of Betsy and Robby

Mark Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Mark Joseph

Something is happening in America: the radicalization of people like my friends Robby and Betsy that President Obama and this administration ignore at their own political peril.

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Only 10 Members Of Republican Class Of 1994 Remain

Hotline | Reid Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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A total of 56 GOPers won over Dem-held seats in '94. Now, thanks to defeats, retirements and scandal, the number of survivors from the '94 election wi...

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Why 2010 Will Not be a Replay of 1994

2morrowknight | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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2morrowknight

You remember the story quite well: a young president and his party are soundly defeated in the midterm elections. It really sounds good, but it ain't gonna happen this time.

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New DNC Obama Ad: Get "Fired Up" and "Ready To Go" About No Public Option

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Jane Hamsher

Passing the Baucus bill means stabbing the base in the back and destroying 2010 turnout for the midterms, which is pretty much what NAFTA did in 1994.

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Will 2010 be like 1994?

Brendan Nyhan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Brendan Nyhan

During his interview with President Clinton yesterday on Meet the Press, David Gregory asked a question that is increasingly occupying the minds of pr...

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Friday Talking Points [89] -- Fighting Crazy

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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Chris Weigant

The media is not completely responsible for the state of the debate over healthcare reform. The Democrats have done such a poor job of presenting their case that they really bear the lion's share of blame.

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Obama and Bright Lines in the Sand

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Chris Weigant

Obama again refused to give a strong defense of the public option himself. By doing so, he just dug the hole deeper. What exactly does Obama stand for in the health care debate?

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