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    Published: 03/8/10

    Six Reasons Barack Obama is Still the Odds-on Favorite in 2012

    By Carl M. Cannon

    Less than six months after he took office, Barack Obama was labeled a "lame duck" president by a few overeager conservative commentators. Before his first year in the White House was up, some nervous liberals began pronouncing their hero more Jimmy Carter than J.F.K. Now, independents are apparently casting gimlet eyes at the president. In a recent Gallup Poll, Obama was losing by 14 points among these swing voters in a 2012 matchup to something called the "generic Republican." ...

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    Published: 02/11/10

    Drew Brees, Mitch Landrieu, and the Pre-Lenten Gift NOLA Gave Itself

    By Carl M. Cannon

    As long as there is music in the French Quarter, they will talk about the onside kick that started the New Orleans Super Bowl comeback, Drew Brees' pinpoint passing, and the electric moment when Louisiana native Tracy Porter picked off an errant Peyton Manning pass and took the ball 74 yards for a touchdown that clinched the Saints' Super Bowl victory and ended 42 years worth of frustration for the Saints faithful. It was a Super Sunday, all right, and the town was jammed with happy fans who rejoined from the Domilise's Po-Boys in Uptown -- the Manning family's favorite restaurant -- to the ...

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    Published: 02/8/10

    Florida 2010: Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio, Alex Sink and the Law of Unintended Consequences

    By Carl M. Cannon

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio sought to curry favor with conservatives last week by suggesting that not all immigrants should be counted in the 2010 Census. Rubio is the son of immigrants. A day later, Gov. Charlie Crist – Rubio's opponent in the GOP senatorial race and a man dubbed "Gov. Sunshine" -- let it slip that some of his supporters told him he ought to shun President Obama when the chief executive visited Florida. Rubio quickly clarified his remarks – he specified that he meant illegal immigrants (still a dubious position, given ...

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    Published: 01/23/10

    President Obama One Year Later: He's Doing All Right, Considering

    By Carl M. Cannon

    It's a rare day when liberals and conservatives agree on anything in Washington anymore, but when it comes to assessing President Obama, the conventional wisdom from right and left has coalesced into a similar story line: He's heading south, and his plummeting poll numbers and the fate of three statewide Democratic candidates who've run -- and lost -- since he took office proves it. Historical context, however, suggests an alternative view: namely, that other presidents confronted by similar tribulations facing the 44th president of the United States have also seen their popularity decline. ...

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    Published: 01/19/10

    Results of the Massachusetts Special Senate Election

    By Carl M. Cannon

    VOTE TOTALS: Scott P. Brown, Republican: 1,168,107 (52 percent) Martha Coakley, Democrat: 1,058,682 (47 percent) Joseph L. Kennedy, Libertarian: 22,237 (1 percent) Click below to read the latest Politics Daily stories about this important race: GOP's Scott Brown Beats Martha Coakley for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts Brown's Win: Rise of the Tea Partiers, or Alienation of the Indie Voters? Obama 'Surprised and Frustrated' by Massachusetts Senate Race Crucial Massachusetts Senate Race Goes Down to the Wire Tea Party PAC Spends Big for Scott Brown; Unions Pay Up for Martha Coakley Are ...

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    Published: 01/16/10

    Behind the Scenes Look at Obama and White House Response to Haiti Earthquake

    By Carl M. Cannon

    Once upon a time, enterprising White House correspondents would recreate a "tick-tock" of how a sitting president of the United States responded to a specific crisis. Because these details almost invariably came from reverential presidential aides, the commander in chief tended to be portrayed as a kind of cross between Abe Lincoln and George Patton. President Obama's staff decided late Friday to eliminate the middleman – and much of the spin – and furnish their own tick-tock to Politics Daily and other news organizations of the response of the Obama White House to the ...

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    Published: 01/9/10

    New Campaign Book: Bill Clinton's Remark about Obama Angered Teddy Kennedy

    By Carl M. Cannon

    The forceful 2008 endorsement of Barack Obama by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy – and Kennedy's sudden break with the Clintons – was caused in part by a racist comment made by Bill Clinton to Kennedy over the telephone, according to a new campaign book. ...

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    Published: 01/8/10

    Fox, Tiger, and Christianity: A Defense of Brit Hume

    By Carl M. Cannon

    Thirty years ago, as she accepted her Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa told the story of a group of American professors who'd come to see her doing the Lord's work in Calcutta. Before taking their leave, they asked for a bit of wisdom to take home with them. "Smile," she replied, "for the smile is the beginning of love." Mother Teresa's contention was that the first duty of a person who believes in Christ is to show others that you are happy -- that Christianity is working for you. This is the initial step in bearing witness to faith. A second is to enunciate that faith aloud. This would seem ...

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    Published: 01/2/10

    Deborah Howell, Trail-Blazing Newspaperwoman, Dies in Traffic Accident

    By Carl M. Cannon

    Deborah Howell, a prominent and trail-blazing newspaperwoman in both Minnesota and Washington, D.C., has died after being struck by a car in New Zealand while on vacation with her husband. Howell was a top editor in Minneapolis and St. Paul before coming to Washington in 1990 to head the Newhouse Newspapers' Washington bureau. From 2005 to 2008, she was the ombudsman for The Washington Post. ...

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    Published: 12/30/09

    The Top 15 Winners and Losers of 2009

    By Carl M. Cannon

    WINNERS LOSERS 1. Barack Obama: Inaugurated as the first African- American president in U.S. history, he inherited two wars, the Great Recession, a Democratic Congress with a pent-up agenda, a liberal base with a litany of unrealistic demands, and a hostile Republican Party – and managed to keep his head above water and his famous cool. 1. Nobel Prize Committee: With friends like the geniuses in Oslo, Obama needs no enemies. Awarding the Peace Prize to Obama before he'd learned where the White House cafeteria is located (not to mention committed 35,000 more ...

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