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Twelve miles (19.3 km) and several tax brackets away is Indian Hill, an East Side suburb that is home to those fiscally conservative swing voters the Obama campaign would like to win over. A drive around Indian Hill's winding country lanes leaves a visitor thinking it's less a town than a state park with sprawling manors. Bush beat John Kerry here by better than 3 to 1, and McCain and Palin have each dropped by in the past few months to raise money. But just a few weeks before the 2008 election, the yard signs anchored...
...Where the City Came From Your skimmer item on Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates [Oct. 20] states that the phrase "city on a hill" was coined by John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts. Not so. Winthrop was quoting Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: "[The righteous] are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden" (Matthew 5:14). Nathaniel Jewell, Adelaide, South Australia...
Americans have shown a taste for divided government in recent decades but maybe not as divided as the early years of a McCain presidency would be. The Republican President would face not only a crowd of resentful Democrats on Capitol Hill but also deep splits within his own party. The closing weeks of McCain's campaign produced a soap opera of Republican dysfunction. McCain gambled his hopes on a bold move to pass a Wall Street rescue plan. House Republicans cut him loose and defeated the bill, sending the stock market crashing and swinging the momentum to Obama. A steady...
...that McCain's conservative ideas for tax cuts and health-care reform wouldn't stand a chance in a Democratic Congress. But he might enlist enough swing-district Democrats - whose hold on their seats is tenuous - to join congressional Republicans in a grand compromise between the spenders on Capitol Hill and the tax cutters in the White House...
McCain would find himself on a tightrope, surrounded by people trying to push him off. The last President to operate in such straitened circumstances was Richard Nixon. In 1969 he was inaugurated with a weak mandate, shaky popularity, a fractured party behind him and a Democratic majority on the Hill. Lurching left on domestic policy, veering right in his speeches, promising to end the war in Vietnam even as he escalated the bombing, Nixon infuriated his critics and confounded his allies. The roller coaster finally ended with his landslide re-election just as he was stepping off a cliff into...