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  • It's The Economy, Stupid (Nation: Election Results Weren't Just Driven By Iraq War -huh???)

    11/21/2006 12:14:53 PM PST · by presidio9 · 274 replies · 2,823+ views
    The Nation ^ | 11/21/06 | Christopher Hayes
    Everyone wants Virginia's Senator-elect Jim Webb to talk about Iraq, but the man The Weekly Standard recently called a "blood-and-soil conservative" wants to talk about something else: economic inequality. The day after he accepted George Allen's concession, Webb barely let his NPR interviewer get a word in edgewise before jumping in to correct the misperception that his bid for office was motivated solely by opposition to the war. "I decided to run because of my concern ... with the economic breakdown that's happened in this country along class lines." Class lines? Mr. Webb is a man who has railed against...