Reply #1: Eh, we will see. This is new ground.

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Obama looks very pragmatic to me, not any sort of ideologue that I can see. The most important features of this campaign (IMHO) were the return of public participation and public money to politics, and the failure of divide-an-rule politics and the state propaganda organs in controlling the outcome. One of Mr Obama's problems, which somebody will have to confront eventually, is that the US' decline in political power will not be reversed without a reversal of the decline in economic power, and that will not occur under the economic/social status quo.