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Obama's strange appeal to high priests of US conservatism
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jun 22, 2008 11:47pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Monday, June 23, 2008 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | They're called the Obamacons -- the conservative thinkers who are disgusted with the Republicans and are rallying to Democrat Barack Obama as the nation's economic and diplomatic savior.
They are joining younger evangelical leaders who see more to their religious mission than slavish devotion to Republican social mores, and fiscal conservatives who reject the war-fueled spending of President George W. Bush.
"The Bush coalition is dissolving," pollster John Zogby told AFP.
"We have polling showing one-fifth of conservatives supporting Obama," he said.
It seems an unlikely alliance, as some of the star intellectual names who have long given philosophical sustenance to Republican rule clamber aboard Obama's bid for the White House.
But thinkers such as Francis Fukuyama, Andrew Sullivan and Andrew Bacevich -- all vehemently opposed to the war in Iraq -- dislike Republican candidate John McCain and see something alluring in his Democratic rival
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