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(CNN) - CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger says Democratic Governor Jon Corzine's projected loss tonight could spell trouble for the White House.

"Its a wake up call for the White House," she said. "This is a Democratic state, and a loss there means that independent voters are unhappy. And that's not good news for President Obama"

Obama was not asked about Iraq or Afghanistan.

(CNN) – It's astonishing President Obama was not asked more about foreign policy.

The president himself had to raise the issue of his Iran tape. There was some talk on Mexico and a tad on the Middle East, but NO Iraq and Afghanistan???

How can that be?

And when was the last time a president had a press conference without mentioning those, or without being asked about those?

(CNN) - The president didn not call for a permanent middle class tax cut.

A temporary one is in the stimulus package, but when pressed, the president outlined his budget priorities: health care, energy, education, and deficit reduction.

(CNN) - President Obama made it clear that Americans “are sacrificing left and right…”

And the folks who are getting the bailout money are going to have to sacrifice more.

He did take the turn to make it clear he still intends to pack his agenda—with health care, education and energy for the “longterm growth” of the economy.

Jury is still out on whether the public will buy that, given the economic mess

WASHINGTON (CNN) – When the White House first got wind of the executive bonuses at American International Group, the disbelief was palpable.

"You smack your head and you say 'You've gotta be kidding me,' " senior presidential adviser David Axelrod tells me. "It put another brick on the load we're carrying."

Or a concrete block.

Just as the White House readies its long-awaited plan to bail out the banks - having presented its plans for housing and small business - a new wave of anger is precisely what it doesn't need. And to make matters worse, it's a widespread anger that is not grounded in the more ordinary resentments between economic classes.

In fact, this new populism is almost unanimous: The banks were greedy and reckless. They took us down with them. So why do the bad guys deserve a government cushion?

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