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Washington Post: How Obama can find his center, writes Mark Penn

By MARK PENN Published January 31, 2011 Centrists of America, rejoice. After being out of whack for two years, the political system and the president have come back to the mainstream. For all of the drum-beating from both extremes during the election season, the result has been a surprisingly sensible […]

January 31, 2011

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The Huffington Post: Democrats Need to Back Obama, writes Mark Penn

By MARK PENN Published December 10, 2010 Democrats should move quickly to back the president on the tax bill or risk turning themselves into a minority party in Congress for a long time to come. By becoming reverse tax protesters (chanting “raise taxes”), the liberals are sending out all the […]

December 10, 2010

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The Hill: How to hold on to the House by Mark Penn

By MARK PENN September 28, 2010 The selection of loopy Republican Senate nominees has given the Democrats their first serious opportunity in months to turn this election around to hold onto the House — a feat that would now be considered a major political victory no matter how slim the […]

September 28, 2010

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Politico: The Strategy Corner with Mark Penn: End class warfare

By MARK PENN Published July 29, 2009 It sounds so simple: Just tax the few to pay for social programs that benefit the many. Yet no political idea — embodied by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s call to tax the wealthy to cover health care for everyone else — has ever […]

July 29, 2009

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