Salon wraps up the seven biggest blunders of the US election campaign.
“The headline on the Aug. 20 Quinnipiac University national poll is enough to prompt instant nostalgia: “Gas Prices Gaining As Americans’ Biggest Worry.” Brooding about a $100 fill-up seems so overwrought two months later with a financial system in tatters. Who would have ever guessed back then that oil prices would drop below $70 a barrel before Election Day. The moral, of course, is that voters choose a candidate based on what is bugging them in November, not August.”
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It`s very hard to feel sorry for middle class america, they are so dumb arsed and basically redneck, and can`t see whats in front of their noses, so like the 40% middle class conservative Australian voters, completely hoodwinked by the piers ackemans of the media., you know, the mr. smithers to old tight arse rupert murdoch., I wonder if the simpsons producers modelled their mr. burns on rupert, he sure looks like him.