Week of April 16, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, April 16
Government Can't Create Happiness - Robert Samuelson, NewsweekHigh Taxes Burden Working People - Sen. Scott Brown, Boston Herald
The Sweet Spot in the Middle - Bill Keller, New York Times
ObamaCare: More Expensive Than Advertised - Michael Barone, Examiner
The GOP's War Against Obama - John Heilemann, New York Magazine
Barack Obama: The Great Divider - Peter Wehner, The Weekly Standard
A Few States Could Decide 2012 Battle - Mark Barabak, Los Angeles Times
History Won't Help Pick Romney's Running Mate - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
The TurboTax Crime Wave - Mock & Shurtz, Wall Street Journal
Europe's Economic Suicide - Paul Krugman, New York Times
America vs. Europe - Irwin Stelzer, The Weekly Standard
GOP's Damaging Detour to Crazytown - Bauerlein & Jeffery, Mother Jones
Obama at Home in DC's Fetid Swamp - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
How Race May Affect This Year's Election - Juan Williams, The Hill
America's Most Indecent Race Mongers - Harry Stein, They'll Call It Racist
One Nation, Under the Gun - Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
Remembering My Dad - Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday
Tuesday, April 17
"Trust" to Join "Fairness" as Obama Buzzword - Alexis Simendinger, RCPDavid Axelrod's Revealing Remark - John Podhoretz, New York Post
Mitt Romney, a Man of Falsehoods - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Will We Defuse Our Debt Bomb? - Sen. Tom Coburn, RealClearPolitics
Obama, Romney: Who's More Out of Touch? - John Dickerson, Slate
We've Entered a New Era of Very Bad Money - Jim Jubak, MSN Money
Breaking the Foreign-Oil Habit - Sen. Bill Nelson, Politico
The Green Movement's Apocalyptic Daze - Pascal Bruckner, City Journal
Political Parties Becoming More Racialized - Charles Lane, Washington Post
Romney Still Lagging in Foreign Policy Strategy - Erin McPike, RCP
Will Romney Follow Public on Afghanistan? - Byron York, DC Examiner
Obama's Cockiness Problem - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
A Look at the Life of James Q. Wilson - James Piereson, The New Criterion
Is Trayvon Martin's Death a Catalyst? - Roland Martin, CNN
Racial Division & the Trayvon Martin Tragedy - Victor Davis Hanson, PJM
Is the Right Really Breaking Up With Its Racists? - Alex Pareene, Salon
Mixing and Matching - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Wednesday, April 18
Obama's Problem? His Record - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles TimesWhy Romney's No Reagan - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
History, Data Say Election Will Be a Referendum - Sean Trende, RCP
Obama Still Holding Young, Brown Coalition - Jonathan Chait, NY Mag
Undecideds Usually Break Against the Incumbent - Dick Morris, The Hill
The Phony Mommy Wars - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Obama's Latest Imaginary Villain - David Harsanyi, Human Events
Rise of the Killer Drones - Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone
A Deal in the Works With Iran? - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Stop Treating Symptoms, Cure Too Big to Fail Disease - Camden Fine, IBD
A Nation of Spoiled Brats - David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy
The Inequality Obsession - Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal
Demographics & the Fading GOP "Majority" - Timothy Egan, NY Times
The Myth of the GOP's Inevitable Decline - Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast
Debauchery: An American Specialty - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Tax & Waste Never Seems Out of Style - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
America Needs Michael Bloomberg - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
CBS News/NY Times: Obama 46, Romney 46 | RCP Average: Obama +1.6
Thursday, April 19
Voters in Ohio Uneasy About Obama & Romney - Tavernise & Zeleny, NYTMoney Struggles, Not Mommy Wars - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Obama the Underdog - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Familiar Divisions Give Obama Narrow Edge - Ron Brownstein, Natl Jrnl
The Scandal Is the Rush to Condemn Our Troops - Ralph Peters, FOX News
A Competence Problem for Obama? - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
Mitt Romney Is the Dorian Gray of 2012 - Bob Shrum, The Week
ObamaCare Fosters That Sinking Feeling - Jay Ambrose, OC Register
Honoring the Constitution & the Court - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Chicago Tribune
How Romney Can Beat the Buffett Rule - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
The Romneys' Remarkable Sense of Entitlement - Joan Walsh, Salon
Romney Shifts Focus to Swing States, Obama - Erin McPike, RCP
Why Mitt May Pick a "Double-Vanilla" VP - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Stephen Marche, The Atlantic
Levon Helm and the Great River of American Music - Mark Salter, RCP
The U.S. Barrels Toward a Fiscal Cliff - Anthony Mirhaydari, MSN Money
Will U.S. Avoid 2012 Recession? A Postscript - Gary Shilling, Bloomberg
NBC News/Wall St. Journal: Obama 49, Romney 43 | Senate Polls
Friday, April 20
From Hope to Hardball: Inside Obama's War Room - Noam Scheiber, TNRObama's Re-election Bid Is Already in Trouble - Toby Harnden, Daily Mail
Romney Needs to Worry About Women - Charlie Cook, National Journal
Are Poll Sampling Complaints Legit? - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
America's Crisis of Character - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Barney Frank Makes a Misdiagnosis on Obamacare - Jon Alter, Bloomberg
Obama Can't Keep Kicking Bush - Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
The Right-Wing Bully Machine - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Media Employs Double Standard on "Distractions" - Jonah Goldberg, NRO
A Blank Slate Between Obama & Romney - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
Why Romney's Silver Spoon Upbringing Matters - Greg Sargent, Wash Post
Obama's Latin American Disconnect - Carlos Gutierrez, RealClearWorld
Fears Rise of Faltering Recovery in Spring - Annie Lowrey, New York Times
Party Rolls on at GSA & Secret Service - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
Inside the Fukushima Debacle - Bill Powell and Hideko Takayama, Fortune
BP Spill a Stain That Won't Wash Away - Abrham Lustgarten, NY Times
Farewell to the New Frontier - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Obama Job Approval: NBC/WSJ 49% | Gallup 46% | RCP Average 47.5%
Saturday, April 21
Obama's 2.5 Percent Stall - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business DailyPresident's Race to Save the Rust Belt - Andrew Leonard, Salon
Millennials Turning Away From Obama - Walter Russell Mead, Am. Interest
GOP Budget Wages War on the Poor - Ed Schultz, Huffington Post
Dems Boldly Do Nothing on the Budget - Rich Lowry, New York Post
Long Live the Buffett Rule - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
The Great California Exodus - Allysia Finley, Wall Street Journal
Dream of Taxpayer Bailout Profit Is Just That - Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg
The Battle for Wisconsin - John McCormack, The Weekly Standard
Scott Walker Is Dismantling Women's Rights - John Nichols, The Nation
Grope and Change - Mark Steyn, National Review
The Bachelor Vote - Charles Blow, New York Times
Earth Day's Dark Side - Robert Zubrin, Washington Times
Christopher Hitchens' Irreverent Memorial - Lloyd Grove, The Daily Beast
What the West Doesn't Get About China - Allen Carlson, The Diplomat
Voting for Yesterday in France - Olivier Guez, New York Times
Rethinking the War on Drugs - Kleiman, Caulkins & Hawken, WSJ
Presidential Tracking Polls: Gallup: Romney +1 | Rasmussen: Obama +2
Sunday, April 22
Get Ready for the Tax Wars - Robert Reich, San Francisco ChronicleObama's Economic Programs Have Failed - Mort Zuckerman, US News & WR
In Nothing We Trust - Ron Fournier & Sophie Quinton, National Journal
The Great TARP Cover-Up - Nick Gillespie, Reason
Mitt Romney's Tough Sell - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Obama Widens the Divides He Pledged to Heal - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Does America Need an Arab Spring? - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Rove: Voters Need Reason to Like Mitt - Wereschagin & Boren, Pittsburgh TR
GOP Insiders Like Portman for VP - Zeke Miller, BuzzFeed
Newt's Final Stand? - Jonathan Starkey & Maureen Milford, The News Journal
Can the Tea Party Movement Take Japan? - Molly Ball, The Atlantic
Cruel and Unusual--a Test Case - George Will, Washington Post
Chuck Colson's Road to Redemption - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Public Enemy Number One - Chris Reed, City Journal
Rising Cost of Going (& Not Going) to College - Derek Thompson, Atlantic
If CAIR's Attacking You, You Must be Good - Mona Charen, National Review
A Body, a Scandal and China - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times