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How Obama won Wisconsin

The Illinois senator did well with campus liberals, white men, crossover Republicans and independents, but he made inroads into Clinton's working-class base too.
By Edward McClelland

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  • Thursday, February 21, 2008 06:36 AM

    AJCalhoun

    Your point is valid to an extent.

    The thing is that MAD, generally deals with most other forms of extremist - with the religious extremist, wars become holy wars and Mutually Assured Destruction is less of a deterrent.

    Particularly if you have the really, really scary ones - the rapturists. Forget everything about Muslims, in America there is a small group of Christians that actually wants the apocalypse.

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