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The Crash, Obama and the Disappearing Dem Majority

By David Paul Kuhn
The crash of our time came two years ago today. We know the economic story well. Lehman Brothers fell. The markets went with it. But the political story of September 15 is barely known. That it made Barack Obama's majority. That, two years later, it explains why the Democratic majority is on life support. Recall the Obama hyperbole of November 2008, so many predictions of an emerging progressive... (Read Full Article)

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