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If you are not already on the edge of your seat, read this article before we know who is the next president. How smart is the American voter? One of the bestselling books of the 2008 election season has been “Just How Stupid Are We?” by popular historian Rick Shenkman. It presents a familiar collection of bleak results from opinion surveys documenting the many things most Americans don’t know about politics, government and history. “Public ignorance,” Shenkman concludes, is “the most obvious cause” of “the foolishness that marks so much of American politics.” But is that really true?The Cliffhanger: Read this before the election is over
The electorate as a whole may be wiser and more rational than any individual.
By Larry M. Bartels (LA Times)
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I wonder how long Carl Rove can continue peddling his “wisdom.” Frank Rich reports in the NYTimes: Once Obama wrested the nomination from Clinton by surpassing her in organization, cash and black votes, he was still often seen as too wimpy to take on the Republicans. This prognosis was codified by Karl Rove, whose punditry for The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek has been second only to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as a reliable source of laughs this year. Rove called ObamaCarl Rove False Predictions
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If McCain comes back to win this election, it will be the story of the year. It seems like the people with the McCain campaign don’t believe in victory anymore. Report by: Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen and John F. Harris (Politico.com) With despair rising even among many of John McCainBlame game: GOP forms circular firing squad
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If the McCain campaign had discipline, it would have not allowed Palin to participate in SNL and look so stupid. SNL is truly clever exploiting the vanity of a vice presidential nominee to further the democratic ticket. SNL: The “Liberal Media Elite” is a lot Smarter than Sarah Palin
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Once again the most useful piece of evaluation of the debate comes from the focus group run for Time.com. Amy Sullivan reports: In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters who had gathered in Denver for Democratic pollster Stan GreenbergReactions to the Third Presidential Debate
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