SPECIAL REPORT: "The three elections: Voters must decide whether the economy, security or 'values' matter most to them," The Economist, 4 October 2008.

Naturally, in the Good magazine piece I wrote on the election, I—the foreign policy expert—went for security, when the norm under the Boomers is economy-versus-values.

The conventional wisdom before the financial crisis is that Obama wins on economics and McCain on security, so values could be the tipping dynamic.

Now all that seems OBE.