"SAY THAT dirty word”, Warren Beatty rasps in Bulworth, a bash-you-over-the-head political screed in film form. “Socialism!” Increasingly, that—not “terrorist”—is the word I’ve been hearing from John McCain supporters around the country as they explain why America can’t put Barack Obama in the White House. The last was Adam Longworth in Indiana, who admits Mr Obama’s charisma appealed to him for a while. But, he says, there is “the socialism”, and now he’s behind Mr McCain. Power Line, meanwhile, details what its bloggers would no doubt like to see become an October scandalet: questions about whether Mr Obama was a member of the New Party, a socialist-identifying political organisation in Chicago during the 1990s. Why, the conservative blogosphere screams, isn’t the mainstream media covering this? That’s easy enough to...
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