United States | Ideological myopia

This week in the pundit's fallacy

A vain call for less myopically egocentric punditry

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By W.W. | IOWA CITY

HEY, Barack Obama! You want to win re-election, don't you? Of course you do. (It was a rhetorical question, Mr President.) Here's what you need to do: come out in favour of all my favourite policies. Landslide!

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