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The True Value of the New NATO Strategic Concept Clearly, the consensus is forming—rhetorically at least—regarding broadening security dialogue, setting a specific global security agenda, and ensuring that countries effectively work together. The transatlantic community has a single pool of resources available to address a single set of challenges. The reality of an expanded set of collective challenges stemming from renewed great power competition with authoritarian regimes and the seeming growth of as-of-yet unresolved challenges should compel the transatlantic community to work togethe...

They want to say yes. voting is an active affirmation. saying yes is basically the kind of expression that when you vote for an incumbent you're saying yes, things are fine i want to keep going in this direction. the wrong track numbers are bad for the president and his party over the big issue, big economic issues are very bad for the president and his party. it may be, looking at the intensity numbers mark is talking about, you saw them in june 2006 when democrats took control. you saw them back in 1994 when republicans swept in to power. those intensity numbers coupled with the broader macr...

Thing taken to twitter and facebook as a way of communitying with people. she does a lot more speeches for money than people realize and has been reported which adds to her bank account but gets her exposure to a lot of people who are in elite circles. i don't know whether she is making go enough impression on them but, you know, you hear from people, not objectively and comprehensively but you hear from people she is not making the best impression at all of those events. >> is she speaking it people who like her or making herself more appealing to people who didn't like her previously and cou...

Things are going in the economy. regardless of whether it's backward looking in any way, shape, or form, we've gotten a lot of different pieces of information lately, whether it's housing or auto sales or any number of other data points that are concerning investors, that are concerning everybody, namely, about the fact that we may be headed into this so-called double dip. we're certainly a slowdown of some kind. even if it's not true it could have a psychological impact that proves self-fulfilling. we look at the numbers to get a sense whether things are moving in the right direction. we have...

Republican circles if you think about the establishment of the republican party which is generally the way that people get nominated in the republican party is by appealing to establishment donors, establishment politicians, those people still have huge doubts whether she would be the right people to put at the top of the ticket in 2012. if that is her goal and there is no particular sign that it is, but if that was her goal, i don't think she's made much headway the last year in that direction. >> she has enormous appeal. she shels books and sells on ratings, oprah highest ratings in seven ye...