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To: quehubo who wrote (47793)	2/3/2008 8:12:14 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) of 541746

Very interesting point - JFK had a fairly tranquil international scene when he ran, so he could invent the missile gap and play the tough guy with no real consequences. Obama is confronted with a controversial and largely unpopular war where the wounds and scars are still fresh. Doesn't give him much room to be different and sound tough (imagine if JFK had run in '68 instead of '60). Plus, a majority of folks who will vote for him don't believe in the connection between Iraq and our long-term security that you do. Peeling off 3/4 of the independents and a few percent of moderate Republicans is the magic formula for Obama to win a general election, if the swings happen in the right states. I don't think he will have much to say to those further to the right except broad rhetoric about working together in the future less divisively.

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