From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Barack Obama, back on the road.

Hello again, I'm Aron Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

The stimulus package

signed into law today is the biggest thing of its kind since the Great Depression,

passed in three weeks with help from just three Republicans. President Obama is gambling

that it will work. The GOP is gambling that it won't and that Obama will take the blame.

Outside the Beltway, Obama wins 2-1 in the polls.

This week in Denver and Phoenix, he'll talk jobs

and once again dramatize his grassroots appeal.

Is bipartisanship an illusion?

Will Obama transform governance into a permanent campaign?

On reporter's notebook later on, the state of California,

runs out of money.

First, here's the news.

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the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Hello again, Mormon Alney back with To the Point.

Bipartisanship didn't work on Capitol Hill, but the massive stimulus bill passed anyway.

Now the president is back on the road.

We'll look at the politics of economic recovery.

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