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Gene Schwimmer
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May 6, 2025
Democrats’ Dilemma: Unify or Divorce?We have the Karl Marx Democrats and the Groucho Marx Democrats. A rift is brewing.
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October 12, 2024
Making Presidential Debates Great AgainHere are a few suggestions to make these vapid events worth their viewers’ time.
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June 23, 2023
The Trump trial problem hiding in plain sightGood luck putting together a jury for this one.
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April 19, 2019
How to Defeat the National Popular Vote Interstate CompactA key difference between conservatives and liberals is the way in which they handle a presidential election loss.
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August 29, 2018
There Should Be a Trump Impeachment Vote – and Republicans Should Schedule ItA gift-wrapped (if unconventional) way to cause utter chaos among the Democrats.
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July 29, 2018
How Leftist Slogans Might Mean Republican Court-PackingThe best way to nip a future Democratic court-packing scheme in the bud is for Senate Republicans to turn the scheme into a bill and dare the Democrats to vote for it.
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June 29, 2018
How to Humanely Reduce Unlawful Immigration and Shut Down Open-Borders DemocratsThere is a solution, and it's staring the Navy right in the face.
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May 22, 2018
How Republicans Can Help Democrats to Win the Midterms...for the GOPIt's actually very simple, and the Dems won't even notice.
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May 20, 2018
President Poker-Player: Obama's TellIn poker, it is not enough to read one's cards; one must also read the other players. This is how we figure out how Barack Obama truly felt about foreign policy.
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April 5, 2018
GOP: 'Nationalize' the Midterms if You Want to WinTying individual Democratic House and Senate candidate to the national, majority-far-left Democratic Party is the GOP's best chance to survive.
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March 16, 2018
Mass Shooting Solutions: What Doesn't Work and What MightNot arming teachers. Not gun control. Not gun-free zones. Here is the answer.
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May 12, 2016
Why This Conservative May Vote for HillaryAnd wouldn't lose a minute's sleep for having so voted.
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March 17, 2016
Trump's Supporters Are the Real RINOsSo many Trump supporters, including, sadly, many prominent conservatives, ignore who and what Donald Trump is, presumably because he may be an SOB, but he's "our" SOB.
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February 10, 2016
Every Problem with Women in Combat the GOP Contenders IgnoredA case study from Christie, Bush, Rubio, and the rest of the gang on missing the point.
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January 29, 2016
The Only Book You Need to Understand Donald Trump's PopularityWhat explains such devotion? Why are so many GOP voters, at least for now, flocking to Trump? The answer is simple.
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January 18, 2016
The Inscrutable Mr. SandersDoes Hillary Clinton's biggest Democrat opponent actually want to be president?
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November 24, 2015
Some 'General Advice' for President ObamaFeaturing Patton, MacArthur, Sherman, and several others who weren't afraid to fight.
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September 11, 2015
The Age of the No-Information VoterIs Donald Trump's popularity simply a result of voters refusing to learn anything about the other candidates – including the fact that they even exist?
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August 5, 2015
Trump: What You Don't See Is What You Will GetAn attempt to demonstrate to Trump's Republican supporters where the real estate mogul's money lies.
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July 18, 2015
The Golden Age of GiulianiWith Bill de Blasio, it is most definitely over. And all the colorful (read: horrible) old characters are back on the streets.
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July 8, 2015
Why This Conservative Sent Bernie Sanders $10What's the best way to make the Democratic Party primary fun?
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June 3, 2015
Minimum Wage, Maximum StupidityWhat liberals so sorely lack is a fundamental understanding of what money is and what it does. Hence the minimum wage crusade.
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April 23, 2015
The Only Election 2016 Prediction Tool You Will NeedHere is a great way to cut through all the polls, punditry, and blather to see whether Hillary Clinton can win in 2016.
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March 7, 2015
The Right 'Quartet'These four nations working together, in the open, might be able to actually do something about ISIS.
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January 21, 2015
Has Bobby Jindal Read the Koran?A problematic nit in an otherwise excellent speech on the threat of Islamic terror.
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January 1, 2015
Run, Mitt, RunThere's a better candidate out there for president than Jeb Bush. And Ben Carson can be the VP.
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November 28, 2014
Democrats 'On Top of the World'Something big is happening in the Democratic Party – something that bodes well for conservatives.
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November 19, 2014
The Vindication of John RobertsWell, whaddaya know? The Obamacare individual mandate is a tax, after all.
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November 13, 2014
Democrats: Back to Square OneOne bad president is hard enough on a party's brand. With Obama's spectacular ineptitude the latest in line, the Democratic Party gets to deal with a series of bad presidents.
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October 8, 2014
Be Careful What You Leave Democrats Alone to Vote ForWill conservatives lose three elections in a row because a cohort of die-hard conservative purists cannot bring themselves to choose between the lesser of two evils?
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September 25, 2014
Why America Loves Israel, Israel Loves Us, and Europe Hates Us BothCan anyone be surprised when Israelis and Americans ask each other, "What's not to love?"
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August 10, 2014
Worse Than NazisHere is one humanitarian thing Hamas won't do that even the Nazis did.
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February 5, 2014
Along Came KerryThe biggest factor standing in the way of a settlement in the Middle East may well be... John Kerry.
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September 19, 2013
Why a Defund-ObamaCare Strategy Would SucceedEnough trembling from congressional Republicans. This isn't 1995.
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September 3, 2013
A Tale of Two Red LinesThere is no method to Obama's madness. There is no grand plan, no strategy, no military objective.This is strictly a matter of credibility.
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August 8, 2013
Yes, Defund ObamacareThe Sequester, not the Gingrich shutdown, is the model we should be looking at.
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May 17, 2013
The Senate's Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog LawThe Marketplace Fairness Act has nothing to do with marketplace fairness and everything to do with politicians -- of both parties -- searching for additional revenue to shovel into the voracious maw that is government today.
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April 12, 2013
Israel's Rise: Dream Realized, or Prophecy Fulfilled?Sometimes even the scientist, if he is truly as open-minded as scientists claim to be, must open his mind and look beyond. The story of Israel typifies one of these times.
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April 4, 2013
Fun with ObamacareThey passed it, now we know what's in it, so let's have fun with it, and they can deal with it.
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March 1, 2013
Israel: Never Mind the Palestinians,Talk to the SaudisThere is a much better path to a true Middle East peace if the Israelis can set aside the "peace process" with the Palestinians, open their eyes, and see the opportunity standing right in front of them.
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February 6, 2013
You Got Your Tax Increase, Dems...Now Show Us the MoneyWhat are the chances that Democrats' much-coveted tax increases on the evil rich will actually bring forth any revenue at all?
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January 18, 2013
Unexpectedly (!) Republicans Do Something RightLet's see the Dem response to this.
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December 20, 2012
What if Vicki Soto Had Been Armed?Those seeking the "root causes" of the massacre at Sandy Hook need to look deeper than simple calls for gun control will allow.
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September 17, 2012
While Obama Fields Softballs, Romney Plays SmallballShow me a Republican campaign in which Democrats are offering advice and the Democrats' advice is better, and I'll show you a Republican campaign in trouble.
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September 7, 2012
'These'In much the way that "a picture really worth a thousand words," so, too, can a single word spoken at the right time, in the right context, make a point that a thousand words, less well-chosen, could not.
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August 13, 2012
Anti-Israel Narrative FailPA asks Egypt to destroy all underground tunnels at the border.
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July 16, 2012
Israel's Oil WeaponSeemingly out of nowhere, geopolitics have been all but turned upside down in the Middle East, thanks to the discovery of massive energy resources in Israeli territory.
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June 14, 2012
The Euro's Collapse Is Not Just About the EuroIt is not just the euro that is failing, but the entire liberal, elitist worldview that underlies it.
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March 4, 2012
A Separate Set of Principles for JordanWhy does the Obama Administration treat one Middle Eastern despot differently?
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February 20, 2012
Calling Republicans 'The Stupid Party' Is an Insult to Stupid PeopleHere's a simple exercise that I invite everyone to try: First, and I know this is a stretch -- assume that the Republicans actually want to win the election in November.
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February 7, 2012
Will We Have a 'Fair' Election in 2012?What if a computer can predict the results of the 2012 election, no matter whom we nominate?
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January 28, 2012
An Army of Magic AlexesWhen it comes to spending, there is one place in particular where the Democrats and the Beatles can find common ground.
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January 26, 2012
U.S.-Citizenship Renunciations Soar Under ObamaIsn't it fair to call a 950% increase a rush? A stampede?
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January 17, 2012
Romney DenialistsRomney Denialists are grassroots Republicans who so virulently oppose Mitt Romney that they are in total denial that Romney is, in fact, the overwhelming choice of the Republican grassroots.
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December 28, 2011
The Moral Hazard of Promoting HomeownershipSomehow, in the residential market, economic laws -- even the basic law of supply and demand -- do not apply.
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December 12, 2011
Don't Sweat the Presidency, Focus on CongressWhile a president can demand, demagogue, cajole, beg, and whine for whatever policy he wants, at the end of the day, he can sign only the legislation that Congress sends him.
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November 22, 2011
Iran's Maginot LineMuch is made of Iran's deeply buried nuclear sites. But those sites are useless if the Iranians can't get to them. Therefore, it may not be necessary to destroy the sites, but merely to seal the entrances.
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September 24, 2011
'Why Won't Liberals Listen to Reason?'Spengler, a/k/a David Goldman, absolutely nails it.
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July 15, 2011
Et tu, Gallup?Whoever this fellow "Generic Republican" is, we ought to get him to announce his candidacy.
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July 13, 2011
Rasmussen generic prez poll predicting GOP debt ceiling win?Obama's strategy appears to be backfiring.
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July 12, 2011
Make the Capital Strike OfficialWhat we have in America today is a capital strike, straight out of the pages of Atlas Shrugged.
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June 4, 2011
Ryan-Cantor 2012Paul Ryan, whether he wants to be president or not, needs to declare his candidacy, the sooner, the better.
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January 18, 2011
Why Have a Debt Ceiling?When an astonished mainstream press ask you if you really, really are willing to risk a federal government default, ask them this simple but profound question: Why do we have a debt ceiling?
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December 30, 2010
NYC Sanitation Dept. Bosses: Guilty of Manslaughter?A deliberate effort to sabotage the snow clean up?
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December 11, 2010
Who Governs?Sledgehammers have delivered messages more subtly than the American electorate delivered theirs to President Obama and the Democrats on November 3.
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May 28, 2010
Hillary: Brazil Growing Like CrazyWhat's rapid economic growth to a Democrat? Or truth? Or fairness?
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May 26, 2010
Two more nails in liberalism's coffinHow's that turn to the left working out for ya, America?
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April 9, 2010
The Scientific Socialism of TodayA certain kind of mind believes that human beings exist as objects to be experimented upon as society is perfected by the privileged class -- a utopia engineered by elites.
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February 26, 2010
Powerless Against PalinThe real reason the left devotes the enormous amounts of time, effort, ink, and pixels to attack one woman, Sarah Palin, private citizen.
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January 3, 2010
(P)raising (Mc)CainIn the fullness of time, John McCain's losing presidential campaign of 2008 may turn out to have been to the 21st century what Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign was to the 20th.
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December 17, 2009
Cloward-Piven-Rand?If, as the old saw goes, politics makes strange bedfellows, what kind of bedfellows does the endeavor to restructure our entire society create?
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November 25, 2009
The Numbers within the NumbersElites - in both parties - who dismiss a Palin candidacy may be due for a rude awakening.
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November 13, 2009
The Income Tax and Government SpendingUnleashed appetites can ruin a personal life. So also with government.
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November 8, 2009
A new (and old) plan for Mideast peaceHistory teaches a startling lesson about the grounds for peace between Arabs and Jews.
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October 24, 2009
The Swine Flu Crisis: A Call for BipartisanshipUsing the Democrats' Big Idea, we can overcome the vaccine shortage. Sort of.
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October 16, 2009
Go East, Young ManOne million Africans sitting on the Israeli-Egyptian border, waiting for their chance to enter Israel illegally
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October 11, 2009
Liberals and Taxes: The Big QuestionTax rates and tax revenues have a story to tell.
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October 2, 2009
Doctors: Damned If They Do, More Damned If They Don'tAmericans worried that Obamacare will lead to de facto rationing of health care to senior citizens can stop worrying. It's already here.
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September 7, 2009
Speaking truth to power loses appeal for leftistsIt may have taken awhile, but with the advent of The Most Radical President In U.S. History, the Silent - conservative -- Majority is finally Speaking Truth to Power. And Power is listening.
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September 4, 2009
Support Warren's Law!While most of us have been watching, awestruck, as The Messiah parts the waters and walks upon the unparted portions, a tragedy has been unfolding in America.
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August 25, 2009
ArroganceWhat's the clearly stated preference of the majority of Americans to Barack Obama? Or Nancy Pelosi? Or Harry Reid? They and their congressional fellows know what you need.
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August 23, 2009
Rasmussen: Obama Hits new Low (updated)Two new lows, actually. Weakness within his own camp.
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August 21, 2009
Obama's Scarlet LetterUsually, an "all adults" voter sample polls more, sometimes much more, favorably toward the Democrats than a "likely voter" sample. What's going on now?
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August 19, 2009
Rasmussen: GOP Takes Lead on Health CareA dramatic reversal on which party the American people trust to handle health care
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August 16, 2009
Rasmussen: New Strongly Disapprove high for ObamaCould the "unthinkable" be just around the corner?
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August 13, 2009
47!Rasmussen's latest overall approval rating for President Obama: 47% -- a new low for him.
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August 5, 2009
Rasmussen Poll Watch: Good News and Bad NewsGood news and Bad News for Republicans in yesterday's Rasmussen Generic Congressional Ballot
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August 3, 2009
Can the Schadenfreude - Part 3Just a cautionary note to Republicans who may have been taunting, baiting or needling their liberal friends over Obama's falling ratings
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August 2, 2009
Mideast Peace Now!Is it time for those who clamor for a Middle East peace to "declare victory and go home"? Two recent events in the region signal the answer.
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July 30, 2009
Rasmussen Poll Watch: New Lows for ObamaGrim news for the White House in today's Rasmussen Poll
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July 27, 2009
Obama Appeasement Watch: Obama Rewards Hariri MurderersFor those speculating on the next act in the president's ongoing campaign to appease the enemies of America and her allies, we now have an answer.
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July 22, 2009
Dem reps: read this and weepDemocratic Congressmen facing a vote on Obama Care have another reason to think it over very, very carefully.
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July 22, 2009
Can the Schadenfreude, GOPOne detects the acrid odor of hubris wafting from Republican quarters, the kind of hubris that leaves egg on the face of those arrogant enough to celebrate prematurely a flailing president's political demise.
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July 21, 2009
Obama is a '10' (updated)According to a new Gallup Poll Barack Obama is a "10" - not the kind of 10 girls like to look at, but the kind of numbers Obama's political opponents like to look at
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July 20, 2009
Death Begins at 50?Political death, that is. Today, for the first time (to this writer's knowledge) in any poll of his presidency Obama's approval rating falls to 50% -- on the highly credible Rasmussen poll.
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July 15, 2009
More bad polling news for the Dems and ObamaFor the second time since Obama took office, Republicans have been leading Democrats on Rasmussen's Generic Congressional Ballot for three consecutive weeks.
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July 2, 2009
Obama's new poll lowA first: three days in a row with a negative Rasmussen Approval Index. And check out the numbers on Dems versus Reps on the Generic Congressional Ballot. You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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June 30, 2009
Obama's polling weaknessObama's Rasmussen Approval Index returns to -2, his previous low, without having risen above +2 in the interim.
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June 28, 2009
Rasmussen: Obama Approval Index at 0What's especially significant is that this comes four days after ABC's all-day-culminating-with-a-broadcast-from-the-White House health-care plan telethon. The law of diminishing returns strikes again.