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National politicians usually have years to build these homunculi of themselves. The race to sculpt Public Palin was instant, and Fey had the sharpest chisel. Where Palin's campaign projected a smart, tough, folksy reformer, Fey showed a posing, in-over-her-head maverick...
...know I'm shooting to race one more. I don't want to put an end on it. I don't want to box myself in. There might...
Here's the question that has obsessed more than a few political experts since the beginning of the presidential campaign: Why does Barack Obama consistently poll behind the generic Democrat in the 2008 race? What that means in regular speech is that when voters are asked whether they would prefer a Democrat or a Republican, the generic Democrat has scored as many as five points higher than Senator Obama does...
...kind. But for many, I would say, this is more in the nature of stereotypes we hold or assumptions we make that are not based on knowledge or experience. For a long time, I've wanted to get to the root of this issue. In our special report on race and in our annual America by the Numbers franchise, we look at the role race is playing. No one can say for certain what is in people's hearts. But what we found is a very American answer: people are pragmatic and seem willing to evaluate the candidates...
...talking politics." In general, David found a good number of blue collar white voters who said they plan to vote for Obama because of the economy, and some who say they plan to vote against him because they disagree with his policies. But he found little evidence that race will be a determining factor either way. Accompanying David's piece are provocative essays on Obama's candidacy by TIME contributors Peter Beinart and Ta-Nehisi Coates...