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To: Lane3 who wrote (91000)	10/21/2008 9:52:35 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541303

Without getting lost in semantics again, I think this election will be more about the center rejecting Bush-Cheney-Rove-style politics and philosophy. Obama is the only clear alternative so he will probably be elected with centrist votes, even if he is more of a liberal himself. It is not a big shift to liberalism per se. But the era of liberalism being demonized will be over for a while, and the conservative brand will be badly in need of refurbishing and reinvention.

To: Lane3 who wrote (91000)	10/21/2008 10:13:43 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541303

My own guess, Karen, and it's only that, is you will be more pleased with an Obama presidency than I will. There are more than a few positions he's taken during his period in the senate that are not ones I like. More in what I read as your direction. I suspect he will govern as a somewhat centrist pragmatist. But that, hopefully, should he be elected, his presidency might even lead us to have to rethink left-right, perhaps even discard the distinction for something more serviceable.