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By Lawrence Weschler
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Much has been made of the $4 billion spent in the midterm elections, including $140 million of Meg Whitman’s own money, but spending, as Ms. Whitman found out, does not equal victory. Sharron Angle spent more per voter than any other candidate—about $97—and still lost.
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Pre-election jitters abound on both sides of the aisle before Tuesday’s midterm vote. The distribution of power in Congress could well shift, but in these angry times can any party govern effectively? Plus: Is Obama too cool?
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Sharron Angle, tea party favorite and sophisticated analyst of American racial politics, has lodged a complaint with Nevada’s attorney general, accusing her Senate rival, Harry Reid, of plying voters with goodies to get their support.
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By Marcia Alesan Dawkins — Sharron Angle’s recent confusing remarks about race and ethnicity serve a unique purpose. They provide an opportunity to open dialogue in a campaign season that has been more focused on economics than on ethnicity. Could it be that the two are connected?
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By Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang —
The tea partyers issue dire warnings of the threat posed by government, but their movement ignores the threat from corporate America: pollution, dangerous products and banking practices that brought us the worst economic crash since the Great Depression.
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By Ruth Marcus — In this, the year of the Mama Grizzly, let’s stop stirring the moose chili for a moment to ponder three words—man up and whore—and what they have to tell us about the muddled state of gender politics.
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By Eugene Robinson — Sorry, but I just can’t do it anymore. When has there been an election with so many looney tunes running under the banner of one of our major parties?
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