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By Michael Gerson | Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…The early predictions about this presidential race were mostly wrong.

Republicans were supposed to return to a miniaturized version of Reaganism — the narrow box of predictable, anti-government orthodoxy — which would have turned out to be a political coffin. Instead, the two hottest Republican candidates are downright heterodox. Mike Huckabee pushes an unapologetic economic populism. And John McCain — with his heretical stands on global warming and immigration — also presents a conservative message that is reformulated, not just reconstituted.

Democrats were supposed to return to the good old days of Clintonism, with its war rooms, relentless partisanship and parsing denials. But Hillary’s version seems less compelling than her husband’s — a Clintonism without charm. And this has allowed Sen. Barack Obama to turn a coronation into a real race….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010803487_pf.html