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The World's 2 Great Powers Choose Their Leaders
OK, I mean the U.S. and China. We make our choice, in the embarrassingly slipshod and sometimes deliberately unfair democratic way we have. They make their choice in the next couple of days, in a...
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Election Night Sites
Like other Atlantic writers, I am weighing in this evening on the election live-blog on our home page.Tomorrow, I will relay updates I have received from the "Atlas Shrugged guy," who declares that he...
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The Election-Night Thoughts of the 'Atlas Shrugged' Guy
It's too late at night for me to plug in the links to the preceding items about the "Atlas Shrugged Guy," who has promised to close down his business and its $500,000 annual payroll if the election...
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A More Impressive Win Than in 2008, and a More Important One
I was up very late last night and have been out of reach of the info-sphere until just now today. So I don't know whether what I'm about to say is, on the one hand, already conventional wisdom -- or on...
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Placeholder on Atlas Shrugged Guy: Uncle!
I have arrived in New York, during a welcoming blizzard, and find the mailbag blowing apart at its seams with responses to the Atlas Shrugged Guy.1) No more! I'm grateful, but enough.2) By around 11pm...
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Congressional Republicans: Meet the President Who Suddenly Has the Upper Hand
While I was enmired earlier today in the world of Atlas Shrugged-ism, my current Atlantic colleague Robert Wright highlighted an article by our former Atlantic colleague Joshua Green that sets out the...
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By Popular Demand: One Last Immersion in the World of the 'Atlas Shrugged' Guy
Here we go:The "Atlas Shrugged Guy" made his first appearance in this item. In it, I quoted two self-identified small-business owners, one a tech-world person whom I actually knew, the other someone...
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Placeholder on Atlas Shrugged Guy: Uncle!
I have arrived in New York, during a welcoming blizzard, to find the mailbag blowing apart at the seams with responses to the Atlas Shrugged Guy.1) No more! I'm grateful, but enough.2) By around 11pmam...
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A More Impressive Win Than in 2008, and a More Important One
I was up very late last night and have been out of reach of the info-sphere until just now today. So I don't know whether what I'm about to say is, on the one hand, already conventional wisdom -- or on...
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The Election-Night Thoughts of the 'Atlas Shrugged' Guy
It's too late at night for me to plug in the links to the preceding items about the "Atlas Shrugged Guy," who has promised to close down his business and its $500,000 annual payroll if the election...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Election Night Sites
Like other Atlantic writers, I am weighing in this evening on the election live-blog on our home page.Tomorrow, I will relay updates I have received from the "Atlas Shrugged guy," who declares that he...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The World's 2 Great Powers Choose Their Leaders
OK, I mean the U.S. and China. We make our choice, in the embarrassingly slipshod and sometimes deliberately unfair democratic way we have. They make their choice in the next couple of days, in a...
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The 'Atlas Shrugged' Guy Has His Full Say
I open the electronic mailbag to find 150 or so reader replies about the 'Atlas Shrugged' guy, who plans to close his business and eliminate its "$500k total payroll" if Obama wins today. First Atlas...
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Dixville Notch Has Cast Its Vote ...
... which means that the One Day Only, All-Day Festival of Election Eve Posts™ is at its end. With a zillion reader reflections on the future of the GOP still lying there in the inbox.Only one way to...
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And If the GOP Doesn't Win, Cont.
Many reader messages await on how the Republican party would react to the apparently imminent defeat of Mitt Romney -- that is, the failure to beat a marginally popular incumbent during economic hard...
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'The Party of Romney Is the Party of George W. Bush'
We're nearing the end of our One Day Only, All-Day Election Eve Festival of Posts™. We started many hours earlier with the last pre-election installment of Ask Dr. Popkin. We near the conclusion --...
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On Fair Portrayals of the Evangelical Point of View
Some of the palaver in the run-up to today's one-day-only, nearing-its-end Festival of Election Eve Dispatches™ concerned the hiving-off of America into separate information and fact spheres. Some...
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The 'Atlas Shrugged' Guy Pushes Back!
Earlier in today's Festival™ I quoted a self-reported small business owner who said that if Obama is re-elected, as now seems likely, the businessman will live out the reality of Ayn Rand's Atlas...
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But What If Obama Loses the Popular Vote?
As another thought experiment for our one-day-only, day-long Festival of Election Eve Dispatches™, here is a proposal for what Barack Obama should say tomorrow night if the Electoral College...
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Accountability Watch: Who Is Predicting What
A fascinating interview this afternoon ran much, much longer than expected, which is a good thing. But if I am to get back to the pace of the one-day-only, all-day Festival of Election Eve™ updates, I...
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