First the centrist wing of Obama's party didn't like his health-care plan-but now, with new concessions to the Blue Dogs, insurers, and other interest groups, liberals claim they're the disenfranchised ones. Is Obama losing his liberal stronghold? The Daily Beast looks at the polls, the complaints, and what Obama's doing to win his biggest fans back.
President Obama is back from his first overseas trip, having wrangled with the G-20, buffed up America's image with the Muslim world, and surprised U.S. troops in Iraq. The domestic situation, however, hasn't gotten any easier since he left, with skyrocketing unemployment, health-care reform, and a battle over defense spending all looming. What did Obama miss while he was out?
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Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Jeff Madrick is a contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former economics columnist for the New York Times. He is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at Cooper Union, and senior fellow at the New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He is the author of Taking America, The End of Affluence (Random House) and The Case for Big Government.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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