Obama is my choice for President. Both because of his general centrist, non-confrontational, hopeful, consensus rhetoric, but also because of many of the details of his policies.
As far as I am concerned, no one makes the case for Obama better than Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic. This long feature essay brilliantly expounds the reasons why Obama has the chance to change American politics like no one in a generation. These two blog posts from Iowa caucus night are great little feel-good pieces that can't help but get you inspired. In a lot of ways, the fact that Obama even has a chance makes me love America. He's got lots of other good stuff, besides just the posts I linked to.
I have seen a lot of different analyses of the details of who voted for whom and why that matters, and turnout and whatnot but here is probably the most succinct, important version - and it looks great for Democrats!
OBAMA!
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- I am a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University, studying for my PhD in Astrophysics. A good deal of what I read about and what I put on this blog has to do with economics. What I love about economics is that it provides a rational framework within which to understand a great many aspects of human experience which we otherwise understand only through anecdotes and our pre-conceived notions of how the world should work. Instead economics gives us an empirical social science to actually understand the complexities of our world.
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Obama? Centrist? Maybe I don't know what that word means. I thought it meant someone who wasn't very far left or very far right. I suppose he might look like a centrist to someone way out on the extreme left, but I'd say he's as far left as I am right. (Incidentally, from 0 to 100, I'd say I'm about a 75 and he's about a 25.)
Maybe centrist doesn't mean what I think it means?
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