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01 Nov 2008 01:00 pm

Liberal? Conservative?

JPod gives ten reasons why McCain might win. Here's number eight:

What happened with the Joe the Plumber story is that Obama has now been effectively outed as a liberal, not a moderate; and because liberalism is still less popular than conservatism, that’s not the best place for Obama to be.

I agree with JPod that the McCain campaign has finally managed to haul out the one theme they should have emphasized from the start, and it has helped with some independents. On tax, Obama is more liberal than McCain. But on debt, McCain is more liberal than Obama. Obama's proposals, according to every independent source including the CBO, will increase the debt less than McCain's. So, to my fiscal conservative mind, it's a wash. Neither one is serious about restraining spending - but, then, in the context of what could be a global depression, that might not, in the short term, be the worst thing in the world.

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