The 2008 presidential campaign has been like no other
The country was a very different place when the 2008 race started. Here's how we got from there to here.
How long has the presidential campaign been going?
When it started in spring 2006, America's voters worried most about the war in Iraq, consumer confidence had reached a four-year high and the Dow Jones industrial average bumped along comfortably above 11,000.
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I LOVED the 'man on the street' video showing what people think the next president should do in the first 100 days after getting elected. Their collective answers make good sense: economy, foreign policy, health care and the environment. More importantly, they show a constructive attitude, that is so different from the extremist views presented by partisan factions in the final days of this election. Makes me feel very hopeful about the potential of this nation to rise to the challenge.