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Status Quo Minus

By on 5.6.08 @ 9:06PM

If you want Hillary Clinton to stay in the competition, you must vote -- to borrow a phrase from Ryan Seacrest. Trouble is, she can only muster enough votes to linger in the competition, not to win it. For a while now I've been insisting that, contrary to the daily drumbeat coming from the MSM, this is really a super-boring Presidential race. Mr. Black, blogging at The Economist's Democracy in America, agrees. Not a terrible problem, especially if it's not also a banal race, but Hillary's only hope now -- as it has been for some time -- is living parasitically off the political media's need for daily hype, for the high-stakes story, the human-interest drama. Never mind the bollocks: the race belongs to Obama.

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James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.

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