Pre-election hubris or How can you vote Republican?

The Talk of the town in the New Yorker gives a good summary of the state of the nation. It is probably too negative on the economy. The deficient is relatively not that high. But as Larry Summers wrote earlier in the week, the middle class if not losing is winning less than the rural poor of developing nations and the rich.

The problems in foreign affairs are less nuanced. It is hard to see how things could be worse in Iraq.