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EDITORIAL
The Future Is Bright
by Fred Barnes

SCRAPBOOK
Pelosi's Victory, and Other Election News

ARTICLES
Painting Virginia Red
by Jennifer Rubin

Barack Obama's Leading Indicator
by Jules Crittenden

Next, Locusts?
by Elliott Abrams

Dictatorships and Double Standards
by Stephen F. Hayes

The Swedish Way
by Mark P. Lagon

FEATURES
As We Stand Down, Can They Stand Up?
by Max Boot

France on the Hudson
by Fred Siegel and Harry Siegel

The Palin Persuasion
by Matthew Continetti

BOOKS & ARTS
The Ayn and Only
by Katherine Mangu-Ward

Closing Time
by Martin Morse Wooster

Paint By Numbers
by Martha Bayles

Ghost Patrol
by Andrew Nagorski

Unthriller
by John Podhoretz

CASUAL
Keep Hope Alive
by Victorino Matus

PARODY
Headlines amid GOP victories


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Does the Road to the White House Run Through West Virginia?

Craig Crawford points out that West Virginia -- which seems about to reject Barack Obama by an overwhelming margin -- has picked the winner of the White House in every presidential election since 1916:

West Virginia might not matter to Barack Obama’s tightening grip on the Democratic nomination, but no one has been elected president without the Mountain State since Woodrow Wilson's narrow reelection in 1916. Obama’s snub of the state for Tuesday’s primary could endanger his party's hopes for West Virginia in November, unless his message of winning the general election by breaking from the past includes breaking the state’s near 100-year record of backing the White House winner.

Every streak comes to an end eventually, right?

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