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20 Apr 2008 10:04 pm
Why Pennsylvania Matters
The primary has become a classic battle of the old politics and the new. My take in the Sunday Times:
If Obama keeps her lead to single digits, if he goes on to win in
North Carolina and Indiana, if the momentum of the race does not change,
something else will be shown.
It will show that the crisis America is in now has made the kind of tactics of
the past two decades moot. It will show that the issues of the Iraq
occupation, the teetering economy, the unsustainable debt, the collapsing
dollar, the constitutional disarray and the moral collapse of the torture
programme are now more salient than cultural identity. It will show that the
voters actually want to debate something more than lapel pins and who is or
is not a secret Muslim or patriot. It will show we are in a new era.
Maybe we’re not. Maybe the old politics and the old patterns have one more
turn of the screw to go. Maybe the Clintons are right. And that’s the beauty
of democracy. On Tuesday, we will go a long way towards finding out.
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