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To put the magnitude of Obama’s victory in perspective, here are links to two interesting maps of election results. Both of these resources provide a much better explanation of the outcome than do the state-level maps, which look pretty evenly divided. The county-level maps are overwhelmingly red, but when adjusted for population the margin of [...]

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The current economic malaise will mark the end of the 20th Century. James Grant puts it in historical perspective in an opinion piece in today’s NYT.

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