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Hillary’s closing argument

Every Iowan watching the 6PM news tonight will see this extended ad from Hillary Clinton. The message hits Hillary’s theme that she is ready to be president from day one, in an unspoken contrast to Obama.

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Jimmy Carter’s mistake was telling America it was wrong

It’s hard to think of a political oration that has backfired as famously as Jimmy Carter’s ‘crisis of confidence’ speech, delivered from the White House on 15 July, 1979.  The fact that it is still today called the ‘malaise’ speech, despite the fact he never used the word, speaks to the scale of its failure. 

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