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2008: The Prequel
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Published: October 12, 2006
There are always a lot of retirees at campaign events in places like
Mansfield, Ohio, and the most telling question you can ask them is:
Where are your kids living?

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David Brooks.

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Will the Levee Break?
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Published: October 13, 2006
The conventional wisdom says that the Democrats will take control of
the House of Representatives next month, but only by a small margin.
I've been looking at the numbers, however, and I believe this
conventional wisdom is almost all wrong.

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Well, gee whiz, kemosabe, sonnoabitcvh, shitdamnefuckehellle

THIRTY THREE YEARS BELATEDLY

JOE SIXPACK ANGRILY KLUNKED AN EMPTY ONTO THE CC STORE TARMAC

SOMEHOW GOT A @#$%%^&*()_+ CLUE,

after the prize horses done gone

after the water went over the dam damne

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The Energy Mandate
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Published: October 13, 2006
James Carville, the legendary Clinton campaign adviser who coined the
slogan, "It's the economy, stupid," knows a gut issue when he
sees one. So when Mr. Carville contacted me the other day to tell me
about the newest gut issue his polling was turning up for candidates in
the 2006 elections, I was all ears.

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Thomas Friedman.

A more sophisticated analysis:

If the Democrats win the House or both houses, yes, Pelosi will be the
big winner and yes Pelosi is a progressive.

And yes the Bushies hamstrung the Republicans so bad dumping hundreds
of billions down a nation building rathole that traditional
conservatism is completely discombobulated, disoriented, confused,
leaderless, etc.

Republicans, already forced to abandon "tough on crime" rhetoric by the
high tax Clinton economic boom, are now going to be forced to
immediately flip flop on the only thing the Bushies gave them:

"Tough on terror" demagoguery.

For Republicans to appeal to their brain dead base they need very short
very simple messages and they now have nothing, not even any talking
points.

Not even any "wordbites" like "Defeatocrats."

And yes, I predicted all this would happen just not as late as now.

John Steinbeck wondered why WWII had to happen. I wondered why the
20th Century had to happen.