ANALYSIS: Obama's bipartisanship hopes face early tests

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | 5:21 p.m. CST; updated 5:29 p.m. CST, Tuesday, January 27, 2009

WASHINGTON — Long before Barack Obama became president, he spurned the "smallness" of American politics and the old habit of muscling past the opposition to get things done. But old habits die hard.

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