Week of June 18, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, June 18
Axelrod: This Is Still About Hope - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostThe Obama Campaign Needs an Intervention - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
In Praise of Obama Going Negative - Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Panic Sets In at the White House - John Sununu, Boston Globe
A Nation of Laws & a Nation of Immigrants - President Barack Obama, Time
An Imperial Presidency, On Steroids - Hugh Hewitt, Washington Examiner
The Folly of ObamaCare - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
Obama, Dems Prep for War Against SCOTUS - Juan Williams, The Hill
Europe Needed Clarity, But Got Confusion - Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Blame the Euro, Not Greece - Paul Krugman, New York Times
"Angry" Money Boosts Romney, GOP - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Obama Gets No Credit for Saving the Economy - Nicholas Wapshott, Politico
Protesters Try to Drown Out Romney in OH - Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
White Working Class Vote a Barometer - Thomas Edsall, New York Times
The Penultimate Carter Moment for Obama - Erick Erickson, Red State
Let China Save Syria - Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
JPM's Big Secret: The Coming Muni-bond Crisis - Charles Gasparino, NYP
Tuesday, June 19
Avoiding a Global Catastrophe - Lawrence Summers, Washington PostObama Sounds Less and Less Convincing - Dan Thomasson, OC Register
Romney Is a Lot Like Thomas E. Dewey - Bob Shrum, The Daily Beast
What We Learned From the 1980s - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
Obama's Puzzling Immigration Decision - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Romney's Unmade Mind - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
A White House Mess as Dems Start to Gripe - John Podhoretz, New York Post
The Overrated Cory Booker - John Bohrer, The New Republic
Obama's Bad Bet on "Clean Energy" - Charles Lane, Washington Post
Egypt Analysts Warn of New Political Crisis - Lynch & Madhani, USA Today
A TARP Just for Euro Banks - Cooley, Richardson & Schoenholtz, Bloomberg
Holder's Politics of Contempt - William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
Why Does Gallup Find Less Support for Obama? - Mark Blumenthal,HuffPo
Is Gallup Actually Biased Against Obama? - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Occupy Movement Hits a Wall - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Obama & Oil: The Voters Won't Be Fooled - Jim McTague, Barron's
The Mystery of Michelle Obama's Roots - Rachel Swarns, RealClearPolitics
National Tracking Polls: Gallup: Romney + 1 | Rasmussen: Romney +4
Wednesday, June 20
Obama's "They Did It" Campaign - Victor Davis Hanson, National ReviewYes, Today's GOP Really Is Different - Jonathan Bernstein, Washington Post
How Obama Can Get His Mojo Back - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Is This the End of Eric Holder's Games? - Michael Walsh, New York Post
Mitt Romney Has a History Problem - David Corn, Mother Jones
Most of Obama's Memoir "Dreams" Was Fiction - Toby Harnden, Daily Mail
OH's Stark Choice: Free Enterprise or Entitlement? - Don Campbell, USAT
Mitt Wades Into Western Michigan's Friendly Waters - Scott Conroy, RCP
Trade With Russia Is a Win-Win - Hillary Clinton, Wall Street Journal
CBS News: Obama Got a "Lecture" From Putin - Daniel Halper, Weekly Std
Democracies Can't Live in Perpetual Stimulus - Neil Reynolds, Globe & Mail
The One Man Who Can Save Europe - Clive Crook, Bloomberg
Are the Democrats Doomed? - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Tucker Carlson Should Fire Neil Munro - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
NBC Covers Up Andrea Mitchell's Misleading Edit - John Nolte, Breitbart
The Constant Wife - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
NOW Co-Founder Insults Laura Bush - Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
State Polls: WI, MI, IA, WA, MT / Senate Polls: WI, WA, MT, AZ
Thursday, June 21
Why the U.S. Isn't Greece - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostThe Thatcher Line and Obamanomics - Robert Tracinski, RealClearMarkets
It's a Single-Issue Election - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
Dems Need a Forceful Message on Health Law - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
Executive Privilege a Tricky Situation for Obama - David Nakamura, WP
Battle Lines Drawn on Fast & Furious - Patricia Murphy, The Daily Beast
They Don't Want You to See Those Documents - Andy McCarthy, PJ Media
Holder Has Been "Stopped & Frisked" - Al Sharpton, Huffington Post
More Vulnerable Dems Are Skipping the DNC - Dan Hirschhorn, The Daily
Labor's Strategy Based on Personal Contacts - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Romney Shrinks the Money Gap - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
A Fog of Falsehoods Over Health Overhaul - Skocpol & Jacobs, LA Times
How Long Do Canadians Wait for Healthcare? - Ryan Prior, The Daily Beast
Obama's Bio Lies Constitute a Pattern - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
How Lucky Is Obama in His Opponent? - Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
Self-Interest and the Path to Immigration Reform - Mark Salter, RCP
The Beach Boys Still Get Around - George Will, Washington Post
Latest Polls: AP/GfK: Obama +3 | FL (Quinnipiac): Obama +4 | RCP Map
Friday, June 22
Obama Has No Case for Re-Election - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalRomney, 2012's Trojan Horse - Steve Erickson, The American Prospect
Obama's Floor With White Voters Has Cracked - David Paul Kuhn, RCP
The Fast and Furious Witch Hunt - Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star
Press Lets Scandal Hide in Plain Sight - John Podhoretz, New York Post
It's Way Too Early for Democrats to Panic - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Health Law Puts System on Right Track - Donald Berwick, Washington Post
Preparing for a Post-ObamaCare America - Milton Wolf, Washington Times
Republicans Are Blocking Obama's Jobs Plan - Jeffrey Liebman, WSJ
Obama's Policies Lead to Economic Decline - Peter Ferrara, Forbes
GOP Voter Suppression Project Grinds On - Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg
Obama's Naked Lawlessness - Charles Krauthammer, IBD
Prisons, Privatization, Patronage - Paul Krugman, New York Times
The Next Great American Energy Race Is On - Travis Brown, Forbes
If History Repeats, Everyone's VP Guess Is Wrong - Scott Conroy, RCP
Pretend Democracy in Egypt - David Warren, Ottawa Citizen
Aaron Sorkin's Empty Critique of Cable News - Jake Tapper, New Republic
Saturday, June 23
What Could Happen to the Health Law? - Karen Tumulty, Washington PostFor Full Repeal, Obama Must Be Defeated - Noemie Emery, Weekly Std
It's Not Mitt Romney's Party - Joan Walsh, Salon
2012: When Reality Trumps Audacity of Hope - Judith Warner, Time
On the Economy, It's Time to Try Something New - Sen. John Thune, CNN
Darrell Issa's Cheap Political Opportunism - Colbert King, Washington Post
A Year and a Half of Lies and Obfuscation - Michael Graham, Boston Herald
Axelrod: Romney "Outsourcer-In-Chief" - Sabrina Siddiqui, Huffington Post
Should the Government Be More Like Wawa? - Josh Barro, Bloomberg
Obama the First Invented-American President - Mark Steyn, OC Register
The (Sort of) New Mitt - Gail Collins, New York Times
"Following the News" as an Election Indicator - Harry Enten, The Guardian
The Muslim Brotherhood's Useful Idiots - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Moral Hazard: Is Anyone Allowed to Fail? - Lane Filler, Newsday
America's Great Economic Divide - Joseph Stiglitz, Washington Post
U.S. Will See a Hiring Boom If ObamaCare Falls - Betsy McCaughey, IBD
Americans Lose Faith in Public Schools - Walter Russell Mead, Am. Interest
Sunday, June 24
Obama Braces for Health Care Ruling - Jodi Kantor, New York TimesHow Obama Can Beat the Supreme Court - Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
ObamaCare Increases Income Inequality - Merrill Matthews, Forbes
Recovery Depends on Middle Class - Robert Reich, San Francisco Chronicle
Yes, We Can Afford Cuts to Bloated Public Sector - Nick Gillespie, Reason
Romney's Arithmetic Problem - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Pennsylvania Really Is Up for Grabs - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Trib-Review
GOP Cynicism & Hypocrisy on Fast and Furious - Andrew Cohen, Atlantic
Obama's Upside-Down Justice - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
The Crippling Rise of Popularism - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Law of the Sea Treaty Should Sink - George Will, Washington Post
The State of Poverty in America - Peter Edelman, The American Prospect
Hollywood's White House - Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon
Obama Widens Latino Voting Gap - Reid Epstein, Politico
Ann Romney Has a Horse. So What? - Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
Not-So-Crazy in Tehran - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Aaron Sorkin's Irritable Mental Gestures - Kyle Smith, New York Post
Obama Approval: Gallup: 51% | Rasmussen: 44% | RCP Average: 48.5%