Week of September 10, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, September 10
The Public Is Frustrated & Pessimistic - Robert Samuelson, Washington PostA Dead Heat With Two Months To Go - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
Obama Is Winning - and Has Been All Year - Steve Kornacki, Salon
Nine States Where the Race Will Be Won - Charles Mahtesian, Politico
Did Obama Really Win the Summer? - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
DNC, Obama Framed Clear Choice in November - Steve Coll, New Yorker
What Would a 2nd Obama Term Look Like? - Conn Carroll, DC Examiner
The Truth About Mitt: He's No Wild-Eyed Wing Nut - Jon Meacham, Time
Why Are Dems So Soft on Wall Street? - Charles Gasparino, New York Post
GOP's Strategy: Obstruct and Exploit - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Corporate Cronyism Weakens America - Charles Koch, Wall Street Journal
Obama Enters Home Stretch w/Advantages - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Obama a 4-1 Favorite? - Robert Stacy McCain, The American Spectator
Last Gasp for GOP's Southern Strategy - Gary Younge, The Guardian
Suddenly, The Media Is Interested In Religion - Erick Erickson, Red State
So What If Iran Gets the Bomb? - Bill Keller, New York Times
Are Democrats Really the "Pro-Science" Party? - Berezow & Campbell, RCP
Latest State Polls: NC (SurveyUSA): Romney +10 | OH (PPP): Obama +5
Tuesday, September 11
Will Convention "Reset" Bring Dem Voters to Polls? - Roland Martin, CNNAmong Likely Voters, the Race Is Close - Balz & Cohen, Washington Post
We're Looking at a One-Term Proposition - Mona Charen, National Review
Romney's Behind & Running Out of Time - Charlie Cook, National Journal
The Trafficking in Political Nonsense - John Podhoretz, New York Post
Obama Is Right Where He Wants to Be - Steve Benen, MSNBC
Deficit Tops $1 Trillion for 4th Time - Stephen Dinan, Washington Times
White House Pushes Back on Woodward Book - Wasson & Parnes, The Hill
Everyone Will Watch the Debates - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Romney's Health Care Dither - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Why the Chicago Talks Must Be Made Public - Andrew Rotherham, Time
Students Are the Collateral Damage - Dennis Byrne, Chicago Tribune
Obama Will Outraise Romney This Election - Andy Kroll, Mother Jones
Depending on Dependency - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Obama Skips Half of Daily Intel Briefings - Marc Thiessen, Washington Post
Bush Was Deaf to 9/11 Warnings - Kurt Eichenwald, New York Times
9/11, Pearl Harbor & Other Failures of Imagination - Carl M. Cannon, RCP
ABC News/Washington Post: Obama 49, Romney 48 | RCP Electoral Map
Wednesday, September 12
On 9/11, U.S. Compounds Attacked in Egypt, Libya - David Ariosto, CNNIslamists Kill U.S. Ambassador to Libya - Hadeel Al Shalchi, Reuters
A Wake-Up Call for Obama - Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph
A Black Flag Day for America - Ross Kaminsky, The American Spectator
Romney's Shameful Libya Statement - Steve Kornacki, Salon
In Chicago, a Democratic Civil War - Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
Could Chicago Be the Next Wisconsin? - Christian Schneider, City Journal
Chicago Teachers Push Back - Matthew Cunningham-Cook, The Nation
Teachers Union Monopoly Fails Kids - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Team Obama Has Post-Convention Glow - Jonathan Easley, The Hill
Obama Has Failed at All But Self-Promotion - Noemie Emery, Examiner
The Fundamentals Still Favor Obama - Jamelle Bouie, Washington Post
Is North Carolina Still in Play for Obama? - Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
U.S. on Wrong Side of Cairo Embassy Riot - Charles Hurt, Wash Times
Tragedy in Libya - Blake Hounshell, Foreign Policy
Myths From Bill Clinton - John Stossel, FOX Business
The Truth About Obama's Stimulus - Michael Grunwald, Washington Post
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Thursday, September 13
Piercing the Fog of Revolution - David Ignatius, Washington PostThe Logical Outcome of Obama's Foreign Policy - Liz Cheney, Wall St. Jrnl
Romney's Major Meltdown - Gail Collins, New York Times
The Media Lash Out at Romney - John Podhoretz, New York Post
Romney Has Mess to Clean Up on Libya - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Who Again Has the Bungled Foreign Policy? - Philip Klein, DC Examiner
Don't Give Up on Arab Spring Yet - Shadi Hamid, Foreign Policy
Suddenly Obama's Foreign Policy Does Look Feckless - James Taranto, WSJ
Romney's in Trouble, Election Slipping Away - Joe Scarborough, Politico
Obama Twisting in the Wind Like Carter - Tom Lifson, American Thinker
U.S. Median Income Lowest Since 1995 - James Politi, Financial Times
More Evidence Of Obama's Policy Failures - Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism
How Paul Ryan Would Wreck the New Deal - Konczal & Covert, The Nation
Obama's Auto Fairy Tale - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
Pa. Dems Confident Voter ID Law Won't Sink Obama - Scott Conroy, RCP
Romney's Crass Opportunism - Ed Kilgore, Washington Monthly
Maybe Romney's Critics Jumped the Gun - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
Video Highlights: Obama | Ryan | Matthews | Coulter | Todd | Miller
Friday, September 14
Middle East Turmoil Tests Obama - DeYoung & Birnbaum, Washington PostFrom Cairo 2009 to Cairo 2012 - Michael Walsh, New York Post
To Be Presidential, Romney Must Be Truthful - Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg
Romney Was, and Is, Right - Byron York, Washington Examiner
Fed's Bold Act Still May Not Jolt Slow Economy - Crutsinger & Wiseman, AP
Ben Starts Printing Money to Bail Out Obama - Charles Gasparino, NY Post
Bernanke Rescues Economy From GOP Nihilism - Robin Wells, Guardian
President Obama's Mideast Meltdown - Charles Krauthammer, FOX News
Obama Team Sees Campaign Boost from Attacks - Howard Kurtz, Dly Beast
U.S. Ignored Libya's Downward Spiral - Christopher Chivvis, Foreign Policy
Michelle Obama Plays Defender-in-Chief - Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
Obama's "Recovery" Worse Than the Recession - Tim Cavanaugh, Reason
The iPhone Stimulus - Paul Krugman, New York Times
MSNBC's Riot of Consensus Against 1st Amendment - Jonah Goldberg, NRO
Netanyahu's Neocon Gambit - David Remnick, The New Yorker
Can Rahm Reform Chicago's Schools? - David Brooks, New York Times
Obama and Reagan: The Likability Factor - Lou Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Latest Polls: CBS/NYT: Obama +3 | RasRpts: Romney +3 | Battlegrounds
Saturday, September 15
Arab Spring Morphs Into Wave of Anti-Americanism - Peter Apps, ReutersThe Reign of Imagination - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Who's Getting the Mideast Crisis Right? - Michael Hirsh, National Journal
We Can't Trust Romney w/Nat'l Security - Robert Creamer, Huffington Post
Obama's Middle East Policy Is in Ruins - David Gordon Smith, Der Spiegel
How Obama Campaign Will Defend the Economy - Greg Sargent, Wash Post
Bernanke Admits Obamanomics Has Failed Dismally - Larry Kudlow, IBD
It's Hard to See Path to Victory for Romney - Charles Blow, New York Times
With Obama Policy Crumbling, WH Blames Video - Byron York, Examiner
Obama, Clinton Honor Fallen Americans - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Where's the Media Outrage Over Black Flags? - Kirsten Powers, FOX News
Democrats Push Envelope on Abortion - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
The Tangled Web of Conflicting Rights - George Will, Washington Post
Ruling Shows Wis. Fight Is Far From Finished - John Nichols, The Nation
Lessons From the Windy City Teachers Strike - Steven Greenhut, Reason
Obama on Life in the White House - Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
The Obama Delusion, Continued - Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard
Latest Polls: Gallup: Obama +4 | RasRpts: Romney +2 | State RCP Avgs
Sunday, September 16
Confusion Persists on the Ground in Libya - Jamie Dettmer, Daily BeastThe Obama Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost - Michael Goodwin, NYP
Romney's Rushed & Dangerous Bluster - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
In Islamist Egypt, Will Liberty Survive? - Hanna & Zarwan, LA Times
Why Was Christopher Stevens Murdered? - Mark Steyn, Investor's Biz Daily
Romney's Inflammatory & Offensive Statement - Nicholas Kristof, NYT
Mitt Romney, Nationalist - Paul Mirengoff, Power Line
Obama Is Not Jimmy Carter - Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer
Woodward's Verdict: Obama Didn't Lead - Jay Ambrose, OC Register
Don't Tell Anyone, but the Stimulus Worked - David Firestone, NY Times
President Must Focus on Middle Class - Stanley Greenberg, The Guardian
How QE3 Helps the Rich, Soaks the Rest of Us - Anthony Randazzo, Reason
Bipartisan Convention Flubs: Blame Consultants - Bailey & Francis, RCP
Romney's Terrible, Horrible Campaign - William Galston, New Republic
The Moment Mitt Romney Won - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
Race Influences Opposition to Obama - Jamelle Bouie, The Nation
The Talk of China - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Latest Polls: Michigan (Baydoun): Obama +2 | RCP Map | Senate Map