But watching the McCain-Palin ticket stagger through the closing months of this campaign, pinning their hopes on a working-class backlash against the progressive income tax in a state that no Republican has carried in twenty years, has given me a newfound appreciation for Rove’s abilities: He might not have found a way to win in 2008, but I don’t think his efforts would have been quite so embarrassing to watch.
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