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President Barack Obama points to the crowd following his speech at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, where he spoke about the American Jobs Act. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (AP)

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks on his American Jobs Act legislation, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Leon Panetta and Robert Gates

Winslow T. Wheeler

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Congressional Super Committee Co-Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), (R) and fellow Co-Chair Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) (L) are seated as they arrive to open the inaugural meeting to search for at least $1.2 trillion in new deficit reductions, in Washington, DC, September 8, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Theiler (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS) (Â© Mike Theiler / Reuters)

President Barack Obama smiles at the Interior Department in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, prior to signing the "don't ask, don't tell" repeal legislation that would allow gays to serve openly in the military. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Evan Vucci)

FILE - In this July 27, 2011, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in the warehouse at Screen Machine Industries during a campaign stop in Pataskala, Ohio. Same-sex marriage might seem like a straightforward issue: You're for it or against it. Yet for the field of Republican presidential hopefuls, it's proving to be an awkward topic as public attitudes change and more states legalize gay unions, the latest being New York. Romney and Tim Pawlenty were among those refusing to sign the pledge, but both issued statements stressing that they favored limiting marriage to one-man, one-woman unions. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

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Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan

Natasha Lennard

House Speaker John Boehner Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, as lawmakers work to finalize the debt deal agreement with one day left to avert a default. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, after the Senate passed the debt ceiling legislation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Will independents reward Obama for debt deal?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

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James K. Galbraith

In this image from House Television, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., center, appears on the floor of the House of Representatives Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, in Washington. Giffords was on the floor for the first time since her shooting earlier this year, attending a vote on the debt standoff compromise. (AP Photo/House Television) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

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U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) (L) shakes hands with with Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) (R) as they depart after a news conference about debt relief legislation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington August 1, 2011. Congressional leaders scrambled for enough support from skeptical lawmakers on Monday to push through an 11th-hour deal to raise the U.S. borrowing limit and avert a potentially devastating debt default. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) (Reuters)

Barack Obama

FILE - In this June 26, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama smiles as he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, not shown, participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Turning 50 is hard enough. But it's got to be even harder when you're president, because the whole world knows about it. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File) (AP)

Glenn Greenwald

Paul Krugman

Natasha Lennard

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President Barack Obama speaks from White House briefing room, Sunday, July 31, 2011 in Washington, about a deal being reached to raise the debt limit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

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