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Robert E. Lang explains what may have made Sarah Palin hard to identify with:

Here's a friend's insightful analysis of Obama's encounter with everyman "Joe the Plumber":

[Joe] brought out of Obama what years of campaigning and 3 debates could not.

Here's some great reporting from the New York Times about Joe Biden's "everyman" image.

The right stumbled a bit after indisputable evidence emerged that the market's great Invisible Hand has been doing little more than, shall we say, "chokin' Kojak" these past seven odd years.

When “starving” is used by your kids at snack time.  When “poor” describes someone who lives in 1500 square feet of suburban shelter.  When your mom says she’s ready to get “jiggy with it.” This is semantic stretch - the overuse and/or misappropriation of a word to the point that it loses its original meaning - and sometimes all its meaning.

Golfer John Daly seems to have hit another low and it's once again related to alcohol. 

Golfer John Daly seems to have hit another low and it's once again related to alcohol. 

You have seen him hundreds of times on television, in magazines and newspapers, and on billboards and smaller signage. But you don’t know his name.

You know exactly what his message is. But you have never heard him speak but six words — the same six words, over and over.

He has probably made enough on this one job that he never has to work again unless he wants to. Yet, he is as common and likeable and unlikable as your brother-jn-law or the guy next door.

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