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Barely A Policy

By The Daily Dish
Jul 8 2008, 6:38 AM ET

Felix Salmon analyzes McCain's promise to balance the budget:

Pledging to balance the budget in one term is easy and cost-free: it's the kind of promise which is so improbable that no one's going to hold you to it when you fail to meet your goal, especially if you make the promise only in briefing papers, meaning there are no soundbites to be used against you in future.



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