Bigger 2012 issue: Osama or Libya?

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Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn tweets: “Attn on POTUS poll #’s re OBL raid pointless. Issue is not bump, but whether GOP weak-on-defense charge now useless.” The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes agrees. I am not so sure.

On Monday morning, many were pronouncing Osama bin Laden’s a game-changer that “could serve to change the nation’s psyche.” The early polling seems to show that isnt’t going to happen.

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