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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Arianna Huffington: The Real 2012 Race: President Obama vs. Candidate Obama

Arianna Huffington: As the seemingly endless GOP nomination fight grinds on, it's becoming clearer who President Obama's most formidable opponent is likely to be: himself. Sometimes a long, hard-fought primary is good for a party, forcing the candidates to become stronger, better, and more responsive to the electorate. And sometimes a long, hard-fought primary is bad for a party. Like this year's GOP race. It's not surprising that on Intrade the chances of President Obama getting reelected currently stand at around 60 percent, and that crack prognosticator Nate Silver has also listed President Obama "as about a 60 percent favorite" against Mitt Romney. And that was in mid-February, before the GOP's bizarre equation of religious liberty with curtailing access to contraception. So for me this election now has two tracks: 1) Obama vs. the GOP nominee; and 2) Obama vs. Obama.

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BLOG POSTS

	Ben Affleck: Kony 2012: 'Westerners Are Not And Will Never Be The 'Saviors' Of Africa' I believe there is no mission more urgent than to help children who are suffering and I applaud Invisible Children for raising the awareness of Kony. I urge them to embrace the opportunity before them and point advocates to where war and abducting children is still happening: Congo.
	James Kwak: Fiscal Affairs: Who's a Freeloader? If people realize that the government's principal activity is protecting them against long-term risks through programs that they already like, they may change their opinions of the government and their willingness to pay for it. We can all dream.
	Mark Cuban: I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook in Its Patent Suit When I read that Yahoo was suing Facebook my immediate reaction was disdain. As I thought more about it, I came to realize that this case could be the watershed moment that causes enough people to recognize just how horrific our patent law is.
	Rep. Gwen Moore: The Struggle Continues: The Wisconsin Labor Movement One Year Later My friend Scott Walker and so many of my Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill and across this country forgot the most important rule of democracy -- the power always lies with the people.
	Jonathan M. Borwein: Pi Day in America Why, might you ask, should anyone want to celebrate a mathematical constant which allows you to calculate the area inside a circle? As unlikely as it may seem, the number pi, or 3.14159... has been crucial to the development of modern life.