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...snowing in D.C. until Al Gore cries uncle," Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina wrote on Twitter. But with the snow still falling, locals took advantage of the time off to tromp through the picturesque drifts piling up on mostly vacant streets. In the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, where a Facebook-fueled flash mob engaged in a massive snowball fight on Saturday, residents skied through deserted intersections, shoveled off stoops and walked their dogs - trying, perhaps, to maintain a hint of normalcy in extraordinary circumstances...
...With reporting by Melissa August / Washington...
...political spot in which the President now finds himself, as well as a determination by Obama and his aides to regain the upper hand in time for the upcoming elections. It's a delicate strategy that calls for Obama to reposition himself as a bipartisan outsider fighting to change Washington even as his aides increasingly play the sharply partisan inside game. "At this critical time in our country, the people who sent us here expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics," Obama said, either unaware or unconcerned about the joke Gibbs was readying. (See pictures of Obama...
...calculation runs straight through public opinion polls. A survey completed Monday by the Washington Post and ABC News found than nearly 6 in 10 Americans - including 56% of independents - believe the Republicans are not doing enough to forge a compromise on important issues. By contrast, just 45% of Americans think Obama is doing too little. In that spread, lies a distinct, potential political advantage for the President...
...over Washington, as another snowstorm approached, this sort of swirling message confusion reigns, as Democrats and Republicans both maneuver for political advantage while claiming to be above politics. The well-staged jockeying to rise above America's most cynical caricatures of Washington politics risks only confirming the worst in the minds of voters...