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- President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" campaign focusing on promoting the "cool" factor of science is quite welcome in an era of the Discovery Institute and the ongoing campaign to deny global warming even exists. The question is whether this is going to be the administration's strategy for strengthening education, which is supposed to be one of the big three domestic policy areas candidate and President Obama has repeatedly emphasized.
- The main takeaway from this Chris Hayes piece on the meaning behind Obama's trip to China is that most of the political and economic analysis which followed it is clueless about the true nature of our relationship with the Chinese government. Indeed, our "biggest creditor" only holds 22 percent of foreign-held U.S. securities and the biggest investors overall are domestic, and they're still quite happy to debt-finance the United States government.
- Charles Franklin's analysis at Pollster.com convincingly demonstrates that support for Obama among political independents, as with Democrats and Republicans, has been stable for some time now. But where has Obama lost support? Gallup notes that support among whites has plummeted for the president and PPP finds that crossover Republican support has gone, in their words, "from a small amount of crossover support to a very small amount of crossover supports."
- Remainders: There's more going on with India than fancy state dinners; Ed Kilgore explains the Brooks Maneuver; moderate Republicans are bailing on the bailout; Ezra Klein makes the case for emulating Bill Frist; and prop 187, the Republican minority, and California's fiscal crisis.
--Mori Dinauer
