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...have on their books, a plan to bail out the auto industry and a strict new regulatory regime proposed for Wall Street. Obama has also completely overhauled foreign policy, from Cuba to Afghanistan. "In a way, Obama's 100 days is even more dramatic than Roosevelt's," says Elaine Kamarck of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Roosevelt only had to deal with a domestic crisis. Obama has had to overhaul foreign policy as well, including two wars. And that's really the secret of why this has seemed so spectacular...
...internet and politics ascribed a recent national political realignment to the rise of a “Millennial Generation” immersed in on-line, social-networking technologies at an Institute of Politics event yesterday. Authors Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, together with Kennedy School professor Elaine C. Kamarck, emphasized the centrality of a young generation—born between 1982 and 2003—to the rise of the Democratic party in the 2008 election, and said that the influence of this “Millennial” voting bloc would only continue to grow. In March...
...their vote against a candidate while only 28 percent said it had influenced their vote for a candidate through positive coverage. Political pundits did not find the results of the poll surprising. “This doesn’t strike me as unexpected,” said Elaine Kamarck, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School. “The media hasn’t been trusted for some time.” The study concluded by examining which news sources Americans trusted most for election coverage. About 40 percent said cable television, while 18.9 percent pointed...
...Galston and Kamarck argue that the next President should start simple and build gradually on success, although they do acknowledge, "When an ambivalent public is demanding large changes even as it mistrusts government as the agent of change, patient incrementalism can convey the impression of weakness and lack of purpose...
...eventually be revenue-neutral (that is, it wouldn't cost any additional money). According to health-insurance experts at the nonpartisan Lewin Group, it would save money for those making less than $150,000 per year. "It sounds good, but it's really hard to pass anything this complicated," Kamarck warns. "You tell people you're going to take their employer-provided health insurance away, and they'll rip your guts out. It would have to be done gradually...