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Old 09-22-2008, 10:50 PM   #5212
Mac Howard
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Surfers Paradise, Australia
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Originally Posted by JPhillips View Post
Social conservatives are the most reliable voters in the US.

On Larry King Live over the weekend two financial commentators were commenting on the current financial crisis. Despite their political differences they were in complete unison about the causes (deregulation) and solution (better regulation) and that McCain would have a problem overcoming the fact that he had repeatedly been in favour of deregulation.

At the end of the interview the Democratic commentator ribbed the Republican about the consensus and suggested he might vote for Obama. The reply was something like "I'm pro-life. I couldn't".

Interesting that even for an economist pro-life trumps everything
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