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reason.com - 11/27/2008
Why Do Radical Voters Go Out With Centrist Candidates?, or, More on Progressives' Obama Buyer's Remorse
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Following on to Michael Moynihan and Damon Root' s blogging yesterday on some left-wing Obama regrets, Daniel Larison at American Conservative , spinning off of Glenn Greenwald's commentary on progressive laments about the mainstream nature of Obama's appointments, offers some reasons why ...

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Daily Pundit — Hit & Run > Why Do Radical Voters Go Out With Centrist Candidates?, or, More on Progressives’ Obama Buyer’s Remorse - Reason Magazine At every stage, the “impractical” purist hears that he should not withhold his support from the marginally preferable candidate under any circumstances. He is urged to be realistic, and so he and those like him do not insist that the candidate make strong commitments on policy positions that are deemed by someone to be out of the mainstream. The candidate pays some minimal lip service to the purist’s “values,” and this is supposed to count for ...

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