Just a year after he unleashed a flood of dollars in a bid to prevent a second Great Depression, Bernanke's job is on the line. More than a dozen senators have said they will oppose his reappointment after his first term ends on Jan. 31. The rest of the vote counting is still in question.
If Barack Obama can defy the terrific odds of being raised by his grandmother instead of a nuclear family, graduate Harvard magna cum laude, become a community organizer in Chicago in 1985, serve Illinois as their Jr. Senator from 1996-2004,...