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What Happened to O’Bama in Massachusetts?

I’ve been wondering that myself. With a name like that, how come he didn’t sweep the Irish-American vote?

Meanwhile, I heard a nice bit of jargon from some political analyst on the telly the other day – forget which one, things are starting to tilt and spin a bit at this point – about the Hillary-O’Bama cut: “Hillary has the beer Democrats, O’Bama has the wine Democrats.” One of those things that needs no explanation.

Speaking as a voter currently in transition from single-malt Republican to bourbon Libertarian, married to a baijiu Democrat whose Dad is a card-carrying but teetotal member of the Communist Party, I’m going to stick with Ron II.

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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