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nytimes.com - 11/11/2008

Op-Ed Contributor - Goodbye, Reagan Democrats

— nytimes.com — I’M finished with the Reagan Democrats of Macomb County in suburban Detroit after making a career of... spotlighting their middle-class anger and frustrations about race and Democratic politicians. Bill Clinton wrote in his autobiography that my ... (more) Op-Ed Contributor - Goodbye, Reagan Democrats

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nytimes.com - 11/10/2008

Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate for Change

— nytimes.com — THE inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president... lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he — and we — must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from ... (more) Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate for Change

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nytimes.com - 11/2/2008

Op-Ed Contributor - The Rise of the Machines

— nytimes.com — Omaha “BEWARE of geeks bearing formulas.” So saith Warren Buffett, the Wizard of Omaha. Words to bear... in mind as we bail out banks and buy up mortgages and tweak interest rates and nothing, nothing seems to make any difference on Wall Street or Main ... (more) Op-Ed Contributor - The Rise of the Machines

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Middling Through
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, November 07, 2008 [image] Middling Through [Ramesh Ponnuru] In today's New York Times , I write that Republicans' chief imperative is to move to the middle the middle class, that is. At one point I note that 60 percent of the electorate, according to the exit polls, felt that McCain was out of touch with people like them, and that 79 percent of people who felt that way voted against him. By my back-of-the-envelope calculations, McCain would have had to win 94 percent of the remaining 40 percent of the electorate to win a majority. You can comment on what you think ...

GOP Moving Forward Potpourri
Sound Politics — ... . 6) Ramesh Ponnuru on actually seizing the ground that Douthat - and for that matter Lowry - is discussing: The way to court these moderates is not to abandon social conservatism, which would alienate many of the voters Republicans still have. The party needs to "move to the middle" less than it needs to move to the middle class: to go back to representing the interests of voters in the middle of the income spectrum. John McCain and movement conservatives, so often at odds, have been complicit in neglecting these voters. He somehow believed that he could win a presidential ...