Commentary: Breaking Politics Down to Commodities

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Make a guess - how many quasi-legitimate presidential candidates have surfaced so far? Don't bother to guess - the list of those who actually show up in national polls is in the box in the far-right column. Nine Democrats, 12 Republicans - proving that Republicans are both more entrepreneurial and more delusional than Democrats.

More to the point, which of them have a shot at the brass ring? It's still early, of course, but both parties appear to have a Big Three, and then there's everyone else.

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Commentary: Breaking Politics Down to Commodities

For the Dems: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards. For the GOPsters: Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain. Pretty obvious, but are there any wild cards? And if there are, how can we identify them? Forget about p...

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