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...promise to balance the budget in four years is off the table. "The events of the past few months have completely thrown a wrench into that - there's no way round it," he said. Austan Goolsbee, who counsels Obama, spoke grimly of "the hole we've dug" as a nation...
...demagoguery in Washington, but for many of these interest groups, comity is bad for business. The fracturing of the media into a thousand voices - many of them strident - will further complicate the new President's efforts to deliver on the promise of a more civil way of doing the nation's business...
Underneath, however, Americans still long for the mystic chords of memory strummed by the better angels of our nature - a patriotic harmony that we like to think is the song of our nation at its best. This is why the two candidates who fared best in this election were the ones who spoke most convincingly about bringing us together. When the two are finally narrowed to one, his mandate will be change, his timetable short and his environment stormy with division. At a historic moment desperate for a successful President, everything will hinge on one man's ability to navigate...
...Introduced as "the next President and the former President," the two bounded onto the stage together on a jarringly chilly Florida evening, sharing wide grins and the occasional backslap. They appeared in the state that has been a symbol of the nation's divisive politics since the 2000 recount and is now 2008's biggest up-for-grabs political prize...
...Florida, the nation's largest swing state, with 27 electoral votes, is one of 36 states that allow early voting, which increases convenience for voters and reduces Election Day stress for officials. Other states, like Nevada and Georgia, are seeing similarly high turnouts...