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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Ferd,
Do you think this is still going to prove true given the volatile climate which forged the Tea Party Movement? They were very instrumental is turning this election around. It doesn't feel like the same old, same old, IMO.
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The econonmy trumps everything. it always has.
the good news for Republicans is that Obama seems committed to the same kind of policy that Japan has used, and which gave them the "lost decade"
the wild card here is Afghanistan. if that goes south on him he is done big time.
Republicans will be able to say that he neither withdrew nor went all in and that dalling around doing neither could be a real sour spot for American voters.
We are tired of war. Democrats wont be able to say "rebulicans got us into this" because all those Republicans are gone.