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// These are the top 10 reasons why President Obama may win a second term in 2012, part one. 1. Incumbency As the incumbent, Barack Obama has a significant advantage that has documented over many election cycles. He enjoys built-in luxuries such as massive media and press coverage of anything he does or says, including [...]
// Drew Westen gets at the heart of what independents like myself are concerned with vis-a-vis Obama. The title of his piece is “Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator.” Ouch. And a quote: Consider the president’s leadership style, which has now [...]
// American conservatism is undergoing a transformation. What is it transforming into? Tough to say. But I do know that by the time of the next presidential election, it will likely have very different characteristics than during the last one. It will likely be much more concerned with economic policy than with social policy (unless [...]
// Sarah Palin has officially become the mirror image of Barack Obama. That is, a charismatic, physically attractive, all-American member of an underrepresented group who speaks directly to the soul of the ideological movement and mostly lacks real substance or accomplishment. Note that “all-American” takes a different meaning for liberals versus conservatives. For liberals, Obama [...]
