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This is why this election is so depressing for supporters of free markets and limited government. Obama is overtly hostile to anti-statist arguments and McCain doesn't understand them, basing his ad hoc economics entirely on his sense of justice and outrage. That makes the federal government likely to receive new powers to solve economic problems it played a large role in causing.

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W. James Antle, III is associate editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/Jimantle.

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