Is 2008 a sui generis election?
What this means in political terms is that the only way that John McCain should be able to win the White House is under an assumed name or political party. He has, of course, tried to do both in recent weeks by all but changing his moniker to Palin and pretending that he is not a member of any organized party, but rather is a “maverick.” (Of course, neither Bret nor Bart Maverick of 1950s TV fame completely reversed their positions on the Bush tax cuts to please the GOP base.) A Pew Research Center national poll released Thursday found that McCain’s zealous efforts at rebranding have failed to convince 45 percent of the voters who stubbornly believe that he would “continue Bush’s policies.” The unknown unknowns This is not a euphemism for a pre-election terrorist attack. It is just a reminder that the unforeseen happens in presidential campaigns far more often than the prediction-prone television pundits ever admit. In the final two weeks before the 1956 election, the Hungarian people
