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Apples to oranges? How the front-running candidates compare when the rhetoric is peeled away: a comparison between Barack Obama and John McCain may seem like comparing apples to oranges, but there is more to these candidates than meets the eye.(EXECUTIVE BRANCH)(Cover story)

The New American

| July 21, 2008 | Scaliger, Charles | COPYRIGHT 2008 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Every four years, the American presidential electoral burlesque gets underway with a flock of candidates vying to be anointed the Democratic or Republican standard-bearer, all the way to the Oval Office. Every one of those candidates promises change. Yet by the time the primary dust clears, the two candidates left standing seldom exhibit more than cosmetic differences in policy, either between themselves or in contrast to any president or major-party presidential nominee within living memory.

Since the Great Depression, the American presidential race has almost always featured two major candidates with, to use former presidential ...

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