Любимый здесь Расмуссен пишет о том, что разрыв сократился: 50% Obama, 45% McCain.

empathic ivy league nerd или незадачливый former jet junkie. выбор действительно очевиден.
Вот консервативный автор David Brooks об Обаме пишет следующее
"Obama has the great intellect... Out of the blue I say, 'Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?' And he says, 'Yeah.' So i say, 'What did Niebuhr mean to you?' For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you. And I was dazzled"
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"And the other thing that does separate Obama from just a pure intellectual: he has tremendous powers of social perception. And this is why he's a politician, not an academic. A couple of years ago, I was writing columns attacking the Republican congress for spending too much money. And I throw in a few sentences attacking the Democrats to make myself feel better. And one morning I get an email from Obama saying, 'David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but you're only t[skip]