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Showing posts with label Obama Presidency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama Presidency. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2017

From the Gallup Poll: Obama Averages 47.9% Job Approval as President

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I'll begin posting a variety of items regarding Obama's tenure as president. Here's a look at his approval rates as measured by ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

From the Washington Post: Obama largely commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning, U.S. soldier convicted for leaking classified information

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Checking and balancing: - Click here for the article . President Obama largely commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, an...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: Presidential job approval ratings from Ike to Obama

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Obama's have been remarkably stable. - Click here for the article .
Monday, July 4, 2016

From the NYT: Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone

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An interesting look at Obama's decision-making style. - Click here for article . Mr. Obama calls himself a “night guy,” and as presid...
Monday, June 27, 2016

From the Atlantic: How Obama Bounced Back After a stinging defeat in the 2014 midterm elections, the president found a way to avoid being a lame duck.

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Generally presidents lose power toward the end of their terms. They become lame ducks, but Obama seems to have been finding ways to turn thi...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

From the NYT: Obama to Nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court

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- Click here for the article . President Obama on Wednesday will nominate Merrick B. Garland as the nation’s 113th justice, according to W...
Monday, April 6, 2015

What is the Obama Doctrine?

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In 2305's section on foreign policy a variety of "doctrines" are mentioned. Wikipedia's page on "foreign policy doctr...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

The Keystone Veto

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Just in time for our look at the checks and balances: - Obama vetoes Keystone XL bill . - Read Obama's Keystone veto statement . - Wikip...
Friday, November 14, 2014

From the Hill: Obama veers left after red wave

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The President seems to be itching for a fight with Congress, but doing so also helps rally Democrats behind him. - Click here for the artic...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

From the Washinton Post: Obama to sign two executive orders aimed at narrowing gender gap in wages

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This fits our discussion of economic policy making and civil rights and executive power - probably a few others as well. - Click here for th...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

From the Hill: An excess of executive power?

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Congressional resistance - instigated mainly by the Republican dominated House of Representatives - has put President Obama in a position w...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

A Unilateral President?

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After a State of the Union Address where he promised to use whatever means were at his disposal to implement his policies, a handful of comm...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

From the Gallup Poll: In U.S., 67% Dissatisfied With Income, Wealth Distribution

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Majorities of Republicans, Democrats and Independents agree, which suggests - but does not guarantee - that this will be on the agenda of Co...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Going Public on Syria

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When we talk about the increase of presidential power over time, we will point out that increasingly powerful media technology has allowed p...
Monday, September 2, 2013

The War Powers Resolution

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2305 students ought to get familiar with this significant piece of Vietnam War era legislation . It's applicability to the current situa...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

From Jack Goldsmith: Why Doesn’t President Obama Seek Congressional Approval for Syria?

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Goldsmith headed the Office of Legal Counsel in the W Bush Administration. He questions whether an intervention in Syria is justified, and...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

The understaffed federal judiciary in a handful of charts

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This is one of the factors driving possible filibuster reform . From WonkBlog, some charts detailing the factors leading to an understaffed ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Is Obama really a moderate Republican?

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Here's an argument that policy wise, he is . America is mired in three wars. The past decade was the hottest on record. Unemployment ...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Obama's peculiar polling numbers

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While he has not registered numbers as high as some of his predecessors, neither have his numbers been as low as theirs either. This may be ...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Do we assume presidents are more powerful than they really are?

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Norm Ornstein says yes, we do , and has a major beef with people who argue that things would work better in Washington if Obama was a better...