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[lapsedmodernist]

well, in the end it looks like I won't be able to vote because I won't get home from work until after the polls close, but I did decide that Clinton is marginally preferable to Obama for me, so that's who I would have been voting for.

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[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Krugman is like the one non-insane economist whose analysis I generally find to be right-on, so his op-ed on the difference between Clinton's and Obama's health care plans got my attention. I reread everything she now has up on healthcare, and it seems like she basically adopted John Edwards' plan, which, while not progressive enough, was a step in the right direction.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Krugman is just generally good, and understands economics without living in the insane lala land of economics that has no correlation to reality. This is another older op-ed by him on healthcare
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/opinion/09krugman.html

I think he is my favorite op-ed writer. I also like Bob Herbert and some stuff that Frank Rich writes.

[mjmj.livejournal.com]

you probably already know this, but in case you did not, he started writing a web log late last year:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/atom.xml

[cos]

I like Clinton's health care plan better than Obama's, but I think we're much more likely to get something like Clinton's plan if Obama is elected than if Clinton is elected.

[orpheusinhades.livejournal.com]

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[paperthinwalls.livejournal.com]

i just finished reading that piece! ha! [before i read this entry, that is] :)

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

I'm trending that way too. But what about Edwards?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I like symbolic gestures. But I also like endorsing steps in the direction of universal healthcare.

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Truthout had a couple of good articles pro- and anti-Krugman. (At Stanford he and Kinda-lies-a-lot were good friends: they combined to screw a third-world-economics friend of mine.) Anyhow I thought the idea of voting for Edwards was to give him leverage at the convention? But since you can't vote, and since I'm a pathetic fence-sitter of the kind I've despised ever since polls listed undecideds, I'll probably vote for your choice: seems only fair.

[the-macnab.livejournal.com]

la_chispa and I are still registered Greens, so no Dem primary for us. I was all set to switch until the rumors of Edwards's dropping out surfaced. Frankly, the political differences between Clinton and Obama are so small, relative to the differences between them and me, that I can't get excited over either. I too read Krugman and I agree that Clinton's health care plan is better. But then she's more insanely pro-war. I'll vote for the Democrat in the general election, but the primary? Meh. Y'know?