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The best and brightest in the conservative movement are shying away from its own candidate. Christopher Buckley: "I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. … Obama has in him the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for. … And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November."
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Right or wrong, herein lies the reason "Main Street" disdains "Wall Street" and got the House to symbolically reject the initial bailout proposal. (For reality-check purposes, remember that median American household income is just over $50,000.)
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Countries whose web-savvy populace is behind McCain: Georgia, Moldova, Macedonia. Those supporting Obama: everyone else. This really may be a tipping point between America's global prominence or a cessation of leadership
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The article notes it's not unprecedented, but it's still blowing my mind