There is a widespread belief that prudence is a virtue and that therefore folks doing the prudent and virtuous thing ought to be rewarded.

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But this plan of attack does at least have the virtue of appealing to widespread worries about an Obama victory rather than pandering to the foam-flecked fringe.

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