What could you take solice in if your candidate loses

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It will expose the collectivist economic idiocies.

Sort of like how Nixon's implementation of price/wage controls destroyed support for those measures.

Agreed. I expect McCain to discredit himself and the GOP's myths more so than Bush. I expect Obama to pretty much demolish whatever hopes liberals had in pushing forward the more idiotic aspects of their agenda (sort of like Clinton did).