The Independent Rundown, November 30
The day’s essential reads for independents and centrists.
Independent Nation gives you the day’s 5 essential reads for independents and centrists:
1. “Will the Second-Term Quicksand Swallow Barack Obama?” at The Daily Beast.
Presidencies are not fine wines, and rarely improve with age, writes John Avlon.
2. “Team of Rivals,” at The Daily Beast.
With staggering amounts of recovery aid on the line, will the Christie-Cuomo bromance hold? David Freedlander reports.
3. “A Morning-After Constitutional,” at The Economist.
Will congressmen and women who fought off dark money move to regulate it?
4. “Bring on the Fiscal Cliff,” at The Daily Beast.
Bring it on, says Megan McArdle.
5. “What Karl Rove Got Right,” at Businessweek.
Will the Republicans crawl back to Rove? Maybe they should.
Send stories for the Independent Rundown to matt.deluca@newsweekdailybeast.com. Follow him on Twitter: @DeLucaMattS.
About the Author
John Avlon
John Avlon is senior columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, and the host of Beast TV. He is a CNN contributor regularly appearing on the show Erin Burnett Out Front at 7 p.m. EST. He won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ award for best online column in 2012.
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