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To: LindyBill who wrote (543151)	10/13/2013 6:51:48 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793924

Michael Barone offers sage advice: Elections are zero sum games: One side must win. Knock down the other guys sufficiently and you will. Partisan struggles like this are not: Both sides can lose ground, as happened after grand bargain negotiations collapsed in August 2011. The message I hear voters sending through their poll responses is that both sides are not acting competently. They're not doing their job. Members of Congress can survive politically even when voters think congressional leaders are incompetent. But perceptions of incompetence can weaken and cripple a president. Read more: realclearpolitics.com