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Running on cutting taxes
Betsy's Page — Scott Rasmussen makes an interesting point about the election results. Obama ran on cutting taxes and successfully took that issue away from the Republicans. The last Democratic candidate to win the tax issue was also the last Democratic president -- Bill Clinton. In fact, the candidate who most credibly promises the lowest level of taxes has won every presidential election in at least the last 40 years. When you put together the support that Americans show for tax cuts plus the antipathy to the big-government bailout of the financial markets, Rasmussen argues that the ...

Change We Can Hullucinate In
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — ... from my favorite NPR/Fox Correspondent, Juan Williams on what an Obama victory means for racial politics. And here's another op ed from today's WSJ by Mr. Pollster who shows us that contrary to the opinion of the elitist lefties, Reaganism is not dead. Interesting note: Mr. Obama won the White House promising tax cuts, but he will be governing with a Democratic Congress bursting with desire for a more activist government. As he faces this challenge, he might remember the fate of another man who made taxes the central part of his campaign: the first President Bush, whose ...