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Mark Greenbaum is a freelance writer in Washington.

Left: Protesters wear flip-flops to deride Kerry in 2004. Right: Mitt Romney.

Could Karl Rove politics save Obama in ’12?

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U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-NY, addresses a news conference in New York, Monday, June 6, 2011. After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to "inappropriate" exchanges with six women before and after getting married. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (Richard Drew)

Weiner’s real enemy now: Democrats in his backyard

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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2011 file photo, Indiana Gov Mitch Daniels speaks in Washington. With a wary eye on Wisconsin, Republican leaders in several states are toning down the tough talk against public-employee unions and even abandoning union-limiting measures altogether. Indiana's governor urges GOP lawmakers to give up a right-to-work bill for fear the backlash could derail the rest of his agenda; Ohio senators plan to soften a bill that would have banned collective bargaining, and the Michigan governor says he'd rather negotiate than "pick fights." (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) (Jose Luis Magana)

Why Mitch Daniels is the Republican to watch for ’12

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Senate candidate George Allen reacts to the cheers of the victory party along with his wife, Susan, in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2000.

The real reason George Allen’s comeback is doomed

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President Barack Obama speaks before signing the $858 billion tax deal into law in a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

How Obama can stop a GOP redistricting bonanza

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(© Jim Young / Reuters)

Another Democratic Congress? It could be awhile

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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan speaks with reporters in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday was convicted on a single count of lying to federal agents. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) (Seth Perlman)

The decision that could cost Democrats the Senate

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Why losing the House would be good for Obama

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Bill White (top) and Rick Perry

The most important race you don’t know about — yet

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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, joins volunteers to wave to motorists on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. Candidates are pulling no punches in their last minute push for voters in Tuesday's primary. The greatest proof of this is in the U.S. Senate race where Sarah Palin has re emerged months after first endorsing GOP challenger Joe Miller to urge Alaskans to support him and to oust Murkowski. Murkowski's not shying away, running a new radio spot of her own, called "Truth," in which she uses audio from a talk show host's tirade against Miller to show Miller as distorting her record. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) (AP)

Don’t credit Palin for primary shocker

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FILE - In a Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 photo, Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., announces his candidacy for governor during a press conference in front of the Archives and History Building in Montgomery, Ala.(AP Photo/Dave Martin, File) (Dave Martin)

The politics of sore loserdom

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donkey (4 years) in front of a white background (Eric Isselée)

The Democrats’ panic button strategy

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Mark Kirk and Alexi Giannoulias

The race between the worst candidates ever

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U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan rests her head on her hand during testimony on the third day of her Senate confirmation hearing.

Let’s get rid of Supreme Court confirmation hearings

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and GOP candidate Sharron Angle

To win in November, Harry Reid must go after Angle now

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From left: Marco Rubio, Sharron Angle and Rand Paul

Fate of the “Tea Party 3” will be critical to the GOP’s future

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Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL)

Handicapping a Schumer-Durbin majority leader race

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President Obama and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist embrace during a town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Fla., in 2009.

To stop Rubio, White House must team up with Crist

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In this Sept. 29, 2009 file photo, the Supreme Court poses for a portrait at the Supreme Court in Washington. Seated, from left are: Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Standing, from left are: Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr., Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak. FILE )

Why age matters for Obama’s Supreme Court choice

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FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2010 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to the crowd at a campaign rally for Texas Gov. Rick Perry in Cypress, Texas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) (Pat Sullivan)

Which Republicans will be too stale for 2012?

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(AP/Toby Talbot)

Barbara Boxer’s secret weapon

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Texas gubernatorial candidate Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, smiles after delivering her concession speech in Dallas on Tuesday.

Kay Bailey Hutchison: The GOP’s Martha Coakley

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It’s the Democrats’ House, but the map belongs to the GOP

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