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Robert Schlesinger

Barack Obama Coattails?

November 04, 2008 08:39 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

My friend Doug Heye raises a good point over at The Hill's Pundit Blog—how many of Obama's first-time voters stuck around and voted down ballot. In other words: Are there Obama coattails (if, as seems likely, Obama is wearing the presidential coat this evening). Worth watching...

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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