But the tourist season is short, and the year-round customers are not big spenders.

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But they are not big spenders.

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So it has come to this: The biggest short-term risk of the U.S. defaulting on its sovereign debt is not that big spenders will have their way.

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But big spenders or not, the Udall cousins are running in the right year.

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