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Make no mistake: He's running
All but launching a presidential run, Barack Obama has added serious star power to the 2008 race -- and made history.
By Walter Shapiro [2007-01-17]

  • The Democrats' Long-Term Advantage

    One thing that strikes me about the current policitcal landscape is how, to use a sports metaphor, the Democrats have an incredibly deep bench compared to previous years. Obama, Gore, Clinton, Edwards, even Kerry - a group of people with name recognition and some measure of buzz.

    Comparatively, the Republicans have...who? Rudy Guliani? John McCain? George "Macacca" Allen? Rather sad, pathetic looking relics of an earlier time, inseparably tethered to the disaster that is the Bush White House. Line up the current Democratic front runners with the Repugs, and it would looke like Kennedy debating Nixon all over again.

    I don't know if this particular group of Senators has it within themselves to swallow a little pride and work together, but if they do do they could lock up the White House for the next 20 years.

    -- --ce
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    Wednesday, January 17, 2007 06:26 PM
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