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Landslide? Not Exactly

While 2008 represents an unmistakable repudiation of contemporary conservatism, Obama didn't redraw the electoral map.

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The advent of America’s first black president inexorably calls forth the word historic. Uttered so frequently last evening, as it will be in the days ahead, the adjective would have been drained of meaning but for the palpable momentousness of Barack Obama’s election.

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