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...Senator Richard Nixon—besieged by corruption allegations—famously shifted attention with a televised reference to Checkers, a dog he had been given as a political gift. Nixon left the television studio downcast, but in the coming days, 250,000 Americans sent letters to the Republican National Committee endorsing Nixon, and defending Checkers...
...Unlike a traditional cult, however, the rise in Obama worship seems to have emerged as a groundswell from among the general public, not as the product of a planned campaign strategy. Indeed, Obama seems to be the latest victim of a political trend that most recently subsumed Republican candidate Ron Paul. A staunch Libertarian, Paul is certainly one of the more eclectic politicians running for president—his opposition to the Iraq War and free trade made him a pariah in most of the Republican debates...
...Despite how unusual Paul’s political views may be for a Republican candidate, the intensity, persistence, and downright craziness of his grassroots support overshadowed his official campaign through primary season. Paul’s supporters, including many members of the “9/11 Truth” movement—those who believe that the U.S. government was complicit in 9/11—released a range of unofficial videos and pamphlets idolizing Paul as a kind of Messianic figure. The conspiracy theories and cult-like behavior of Paul’s grassroots supporters has alienated many voters...
...American middle class has reached critical mass, and not just in Ohio and Michigan. It is an issue that reaches across party lines, which is why John McCain talks about the need to help displaced workers. "This income gap is the biggest issue for me," Bob Currens, a Republican painting contractor who was thinking about voting Democratic-for Obama-for the first time, told me after the church service. His wife Kim joined us and said Bob had been a salaried worker at AK Steel, "and the union was a big problem there. They worked at not working." Eventually there...
...real problems with Hillary on abortion and the right to bear arms," Bob said. But he's likely to learn that Obama's positions on those issues aren't much different from Clinton's. And what will he do then? In the recent past, people like the Currenses voted Republican-because of abortion or guns or bloody-shirt patriotism. This year they want a different conversation, about big things-the economy, America's place in the world, their children's future. This is not McCain's favorite conversation; he'd much rather focus on his-deeply simplistic, as he presents...