January 2012
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2012 Election Updates For The Common Voter: Polls... →
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52% of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters said the GOP field was “fair or poor,” an eight percentage-point increase since the question was asked in early January.
46% rated the current field of four candidates “excellent or good,” a drop from the 51% who had that response in…
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Study: DREAM Act would generate $3.6 trillion for...
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The cost of tuition subsidies would be around $6.2 billion a year, but experts believe that Dreamers would pay for this and more over the long-term (Photo: flickr.com)
By TATIANA SANCHEZ Channel: Economics, Immigration
With California’s recent approval of the state DREAM Act and the presidential campaign in full-swing, controversy over immigration reform, and particularly the...
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Turning Arizona Purple?
“Yet the possibility of Democrats raiding Arizona underscores the longer-term difficulty faced by Republicans: how to remain competitive given the twin realities of the growing Hispanic electorate and a party whose increasingly strident anti-immigration message is turning off that very voting bloc.
“Texas is definitely going to go purple,” Messina said. “In the next 10 years, you’re going to...
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WatchPresident Barack Obama’s favorability rating has jumped five points in the last month.
Last night on Politics Nation, Third Way’s Bill Schneider and Democratic strategist Bob Shrum talked with Rev. Al Sharpton about this and other results in latest NBC News/WSJ poll.
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Why President Obama Loaded His State of the Union...
Much of Washington scoffed at the modest initiatives of the State of the Union, but the president’s approach may be shrewder than it looks.
by Eleanor Clift | January 26, 2012 12:39 PM EST
It must be maddening for Barack Obama to win an historic victory and then have his dream of being a...
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Meet Debbie Bosanek, otherwise known as Warren Buffett’s secretary—and the inspiration behind the “Buffett Rule.”
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Did you see the State of the Union last night? →
Last night, in his election-year State of the Union address, President Obama set forth a long list of domestic economic proposals, many of which centered on jobs and changing the tax code. If you missed it, or just want to pour over the details in the light of day, now you can watch the speech and follow along with fact checks and analysis from Times reporters here.
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State of the Union: Will Republicans and Democrats...
By Allen McDuffee, The Washington Post ThinkTanked Blog
President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night is expected to shape his campaign for the 2012 election season—and that likely means he will have to speak to a number of issues dividing the House and the Senate along partisan lines.
But if one think tank has its way, physical division will not be a factor at the event.
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Bill Schneider on Newt’s Victory in South Carolina →
The early exit poll results reveal two crucial factors behind Newt Gingrich’s victory in South Carolina. Click here to read more.
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Holding Children Blameless, but not Adults—A...
Third Way has and always will support an earned pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants now residing in the United States. But we have come to the conclusion that a blanket path to citizenship is politically impossible—for now and for the foreseeable future.
The debate around what to do with this population is often characterized as a choice between deportation and...
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A modest proposal: Can we try to work together?
Guest Commentary By U.S. Senators Mark Udall (D-CO) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Our country is facing serious challenges that continue to be left unresolved. The debate over our out-of-control debt is just the most recent point of contention. Stalemates on issues from energy independence to immigration to getting our economy on a sound footing threaten to undercut our nation’s strength, yet...
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Obama Administration Approves Rule That Guarantees...
Via ThinkProgress
Today, in a huge victory for women’s health, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that most employers will be required to cover contraception in their health plans, along with other preventive services, with no cost-sharing such as co-pays or deductibles. This means that after years of trying to get birth control covered to the same extent that...
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Record Year for Clean Energy →
unitedacademics:
Despite it having been a terrible economic year, clean energy made huge gains in 2011. How is that possible, and what does it mean for this year?
Read the full article at our blog!
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“I’m not naïve. We didn’t expect this to change the way Congress was going to act...”
– Third Way’s Jim Kessler, speaking in Roll Call
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State of the Union: A civil action
Op-ed by Third Way’s Jon Cowan and Jim Kessler
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) have 28 years of Capitol Hill experience between them. Yet when these two supercommittee co-chairmen sat down for the panel’s opening meeting, it was the first time they ever met. Is it any wonder that the committee failed?
Third Way last week proposed three modest ideas based on a...
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WatchIs President Obama playing a long game or a short game? Watch The Young Turks’ Cenk Uyguy and the Power Panel — Ben Mankiewicz, Richard Eskow and Third Way’s Jill Pike — debate both Andrew Sullivan’s article in Newsweek and its salacious headline: “Why are Obama’s critics so dumb?
Pike argues that Obama’s record proves Sullivan’s point that Obama is “playing chess while the rest of us...
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SOTU: Who's With Who?
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Find out which Members of Congress, so far, have come out in support of bipartisan seating at the State of the Union.
Via our friends at No Labels.
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“I get speaker’s fees from time to time, but not very much.”
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Quote of the Day:
“I get speaker’s fees from time to time, but note very much.”
Mitt Romney humbly referencing the $374,327.62 in speaker’s fees he earned last year, an average of $41,592 per speech. (via officialssay)
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Best public investment? Clean Energy! →
“Green energy” is the best route to profitable public investment.
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The History of Partisan Seating at the State of...
The 2012 State of the Union address is quickly approaching on Tuesday, January 24th.
There is no rule that mandates partisan seating at the State of the Union—but, unfortunately, it has become part of the time honored tradition of the House of Representatives. This year, however, Third Way is asking for Congress to sit together, not apart. To talk to each other, not yell. To get to know each...
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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live...”
– Muhammad Ali: In His Own Words (via life)
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Happiness is a Divided Opposition
By Bill Schneider
Happiness in politics is a divided opposition.
That’s what Confucius would say if he were around to analyze the race for the Republican nomination. Jon Huntsman is probably saying it in Chinese.
By that standard, the happiest person around is Mitt Romney. He’s coasting to the Republican nomination on the strength of a divided opposition. In the Gallup tracking poll, only 30...
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Third Way on the Radio
Check out Third Way’s Matt Bennett talking about Jack Lew, the new White House Chief of Staff, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
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WatchThis morning at Third Way, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered remarks on the FCC’s ongoing efforts to advance efficient, fiscally responsible, and modernized programs that meet America’s broadband needs in the 21st century, including by reforming and modernizing the Lifeline program.
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WatchWatch Third Way’s Bill Schneider speak to The Wall Street Journal on the Iowa caucuses and what it all means for Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, the Republican Party and President Obama as we look ahead to the primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
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Poll: Overwhelming optimism in 2012
(Via Politico) It’s been an awful year, but the vast majority of Americans are optimistic about 2012, a new poll Thursday shows.
Overall, 62 percent of those surveyed say they’re optimistic about what 2012 will bring for the country, according to the Associated Press-GfK survey. And for themselves and their families, Americans are even more positive, with 78 percent telling pollsters they are...
