AN excellent article in the economist on the implications of the Brown win to the Obama administration
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Some of my favorite quotes from the article:
"Mr Obama’s popularity has fallen faster than that of any post-war president bar Gerald Ford. Independents are running from him as fast as their legs will carry them: in Massachusetts they voted Republican by almost three to one. Mr Obama’s personal intervention there was as ineffectual as his two forays to Copenhagen."
"Hence the spectacular rise of the “tea-party” movement, an alliance of ordinary people who are spooked by the huge amount of debt that is being racked up on Mr Obama’s watch. For Democrats to deride such people as “tea-baggers”, a term referring to a sexual practice involving testicles, is political stupidity of a high order"
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