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Article: The Power of Two Myths
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 22, 2008
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As its days dwindle down to a precious few, the McCain campaign
is giving new life to old myths. In an attempt to suppress minority
voting, it has conjured up the specter of voter fraud, though there
is no evidence that voter fraud exists. Even more impressive is its
attempt to resurrect the welfare queens against whom Ronald Reagan
used to fulminate, though the stories Reagan told about them had no
basis in fact, either. Welfare was pretty much abolished in the mid-
1990s, of course, but an increasingly desperate John McCain is
transporting us back to the wedge issues of yesteryear.
To do so, he is accusing Barack Obama of bringing back the
discarded policies of welfare by calling for a ...