Washington and the 'Recovery Summer' That Wasn't

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...Outside Washington, there's a different narrative, in which policies matter. The ineffective stimulus, trillion-dollar deficits, soaring national debt, the health-care bill, bailouts—these have upset millions of Americans, especially independent voters. After voting for Democrats and Mr. Obama, independents have switched sides in droves to elect Republican governors in Virginia and New Jersey and Republican Scott Brown to the Senate from Massachusetts...