Week of July 30, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, July 30
Romney and the Go-for-Broke Election - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostWill America Abandon "Hope"? - Pete DuPont, Wall Street Journal
The Bad Economy & the Anti-Election - Robert Reich, Huffington Post
Obama's Policies Pushing Us Toward Double Dip - Charles Gasparino, NYP
Is Romney Too Wimpy for the White House? - Michael Tomasky, Newsweek
Why 2012 Election Isn't a Replay of 2004 - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
How Does Romney Not Win Nevada? - Sherman Frederick, Las Vegas R-J
The Entitled Generation - Bill Keller, New York Times
Behind the Economic Pessimism - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
San Bernardino: Penniless in Paradise - Kevin Williamson, National Review
Euro's Future Very Much in Doubt - Paul Krugman, New York Times
How Paul Ryan Captured the G.O.P. - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
Warren's Stock Should Be Falling - Jennifer Braceras, Boston Herald
John Roberts Unwitting Nationalization of Medicaid - Timothy Noah, TNR
Teachers Unions Go to Bat for Sexual Predators - Campbell Brown, WSJ
The Conversion of a Climate Change Skeptic - Richard Muller, NY Times
Busted: Pfeiffer & White House - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Tuesday, July 31
Creating Prosperity: Lessons From Milton Friedman - Stephen Moore, WSJThe Right's Brave Idiocy - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Why "You Didn't Build That" Resonates - Josh Barro, Bloomberg
Bill Clinton Seizing Spotlight, Again - Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast
Romney Stumbles on Tour - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Palestinian Mess: Romney's Inconvenient Truth - John Podhoretz, NY Post
Dems to Embrace Gay Marriage in Platform - Steve Kornacki, Salon
Obama's Last Hundred Days - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
The Mysteries of Romney's Finances - Michael Graetz, New York Times
Can Cruz Pull Off Upset in Texas Senate Runoff? - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Rahm Emanuel's Summer of Discontent - Kristen Mack, Chicago Tribune
Happy Birthday Milton Friedman, We Still Need You - Thomas Sowell, IBD
You Can't Beat Voter ID With Facts - Jamelle Bouie, American Prospect
Dullest Campaign Ever - David Brooks, New York Times
GOP's Land of Myth and Amnesia - Gary Younge, The Guardian
Why CNN Is a Pathetic Failure - John Hinderaker, Power Line
Investors Vote to Break Up the Banks - Charles Gasparino, New York Post
Latest Polls: Missouri (RasRpts): Romney +6 | Florida (PPP): Obama +1
Wednesday, August 1
Mitt's Foreign Trip Ends, But Will Memories Linger? - Scott Conroy, RCPRomney Panders to the Right in Israel - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Mitt Romney's Truth-Telling - Rich Lowry, National Review
Does Mitt Have a Problem Being Wealthy? - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
Obama Is Starting to Beat Himself - Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal
Time to Jump Off the Fiscal Cliff - Jennifer Granholm, Politico
Dems' Crazy Game of Economic Chicken - James Pethokoukis, New York Post
Tea Party's Cruz Wins Texas GOP Senate Race - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Senate Gets a Lot More Conservative - Ed Kilgore, The New Republic
The Smallness of the New Obama - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Obama's Elizabeth Warren Gamble - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
A New Day for Women's Health - Sebelius & Pelosi, USA Today
Battle for Religious Freedom Continues - George Weigel, National Review
Pro-Life Sentences - Scott Lemieux, The American Prospect
How ObamaCare Hurts Young Americans - Scott Atlas, Forbes
Remembering Gore Vidal - Jon Wiener, The Nation
Who's Against the Olympics? Taxpayers - Steve Malanga, RealClearMarkets
CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac: OH: Obama +6 | FL: Obama +6 | PA: Obama +11
Thursday, August 2
Ted Cruz, GOP's Latest Right-Wing Purist - Gail Collins, New York TimesAnti-Establishment Backlash Continues - Alana Goodman, Commentary
D.C. Is Not Serious About Ending Cronyism - Peter Schweizer, Daily Beast
Regulate, Don't Split Up, the Huge Banks - Steven Rattner, New York Times
The Road to Repealing ObamaCare - Sen. Mitch McConnell, RealClearPolitics
Fear and Loathing in the Romney Campaign - Joe Conason, Truthdig
The Obama Ad Blitz Isn't Working - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
The Great Voter Suppression of 2012 - Charles Blow, New York Times
Big Turnout for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day - Victoria Coleman, NBC
Dem Mayors Are Out of Control - Larry Elder, Investor's Business Daily
Auto Bailout Was the Right Choice - Bob King, Detroit News
The Romney Plan for Economic Recovery - Glenn Hubbard, Wall St. Journal
Prediction Models Look Dismal for Obama - Jeff Greenfield, Yahoo! News
Mountain West Could Decide Election - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
Obama Is Not a Fan of America's Suburbs - Stanley Kurtz, National Review
What's Next for CNN? - Michael Wolff, The Guardian
Romney, Bush & Newsweek's Wimp Factor - Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Obama Approval: Gallup 45% | Rasmussen 45% | RCP Average 47.0%
Friday, August 3
Can Obama Overcome Job Numbers & History? - Alexis Simendinger, RCPObama's Challenge: Keep The White Vote Down - John Ellis, BuzzFeed
Mitt on Taxes: Deny, Distract, Dissemble - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Obama's Mission Failure: Economy Was Job One - John Podhoretz, NY Post
Blame Republicans for the Depressed Economy - Paul Krugman, NY Times
Is There a Disparity Between State & National Polls? - Sean Trende, RCP
The Obama Jobs Sequester - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
What Romney's Gaffes Tell Us - Ruth Conniff, The Progressive
Mitt's Trip a Substantive Success - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Heitkamp Puts N. Dakota in Play for Democrats - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Ted Cruz Wins for "We the People" - Matt Kibbe, Politico
Is Julian Castro the Next Obama? - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
The Most Famous Words of Obama's Presidency - Peggy Noonan, WSJ
Inside Obama's Swing State Charm Tour - Alex Altman, Time
Central Banks Can't Save the World - Mohamed El-Erian, Bloomberg
Professors Admit Anti-Conservative Bias - Emily Smith, Washington Times
Short Takes: Wrong Facts Revisited - Lou Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Latest Polls: Gallup: Obama +2 | RasRpts: Romney +4 | RCP: Obama +2.7
Saturday, August 4
Hiring Picks Up, But Data Gives No Clear Signal - Catherine Rampell, NYTBad News in the Jobs Report - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
Romney's Cruel Joke on the Middle Class - Jamelle Bouie, Am. Prospect
It's Time to Unemploy Obama - Irwin Stelzer, The Weekly Standard
The Coming Obama Landslide? - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
A Two-Dimensional President - Reed Galen, RealClearPolitics
To Win, Obama Will Have to Defy History - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
Romney Should Go Bold With VP Pick - Hayes & Kristol, Weekly Standard
Congress Goes Postal - Gail Collins, New York Times
Government Health Care: The Musical - Mark Steyn, OC Register
How to Keep the Brake on Health-Care Costs - Peter Orszag, Bloomberg
Attack of the Media Cookie Monsters - Matthew Continetti, Free Beacon
Frankenstein Takes Over the Market - Joe Nocera, New York Times
The 2004 Olympics and Greece's Decline - Nick Malkoutzis, Bloomberg BW
The Credit Illusion - David Brooks, New York Times
Gore Vidal Lived Too Long - John Ibbitson, The Globe & Mail
Decoding the Science of Sleep - David Randall, Wall Street Journal
Sunday, August 5
Bill Clinton Becomes 2012 Touchstone - Eleanor Clift, The Daily BeastCan Obama Keep Centrist Dems in 2012? - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh TR
Why Washington Is Doing So Well - David Leonhardt, New York Times
Federal Spending Has Brought Economy to a Halt - Rich Karlgaard, Forbes
David Plouffe: Democrats Have Momentum - Mike Allen, Politico
Headed for Defeat: Obama's Policies Have Failed - Douglas MacKinnon, IBD
GOP's Odious Philosophy of Voter Suppression - Bill Galston, New Republic
Record Spending by the Obama Campaign - Confessore & McGinty, NYT
There's Only One Way to Stop the Health Law - Dick Morris, FOX News
A Good Job Is Hard to Find - Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Shale Gas Boom Could Kill Solar, Wind - Thomas Friedman, NY Times
Israel's Culture of Entrepreneurship and Success - Michael Tanner, Cato
In Afghanistan, Soccer or Civil War? - David Ignatius, Washington Post
The Left's Silence on "Honor Killings" - Sunny Hundal, New Statesman
Football's Big Problem - George Will, New Hampshire Union Leader
Gabby Douglas: Impact Far Beyond Sports - Deron Snyder, The Root
Phelps Completes Career With Grace, Final Win - Pat Forde, Yahoo! Sports
Latest Polls: IN (Rasmussen): Romney +16 | WA (SUSA): Obama +17