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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.
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