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Article: A Year in the Life of Political Obsession
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- Santa Fe Reporter
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- December 24, 2008
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It wasn't the only story-it was just the best one.
In the end, the exhausted mantra of "change" swayed the nation-and New Mexico. In the beginning of the 2008 election cycle, however, even Santa Fe psychics believed Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the United States.
But one thing that was obvious from the start: Politics was about to become a national obsession.
Brian Sanderoff, president of the Albuquerque-based Research & Polling, Inc. said numerous factors, from anger at President Bush to strong feelings about the war in Iraq, generated the excitement of the election year. And then there were the candidates.
"In 2000 and 2004, you didn't hear a lot of Democrats say, 'I ...