1.0 link 106187 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrei-markovits-and-jeff-weintraub/some-blind-spots-and-hypo_b_106187.html This follows up our May 28 Huffington Post piece, "Obama and the Progressives: A Curious Paradox," in which we pointed out that there's something puzzling about Barack Obama appeal to some of his most ardent "progressive" supporters. Andy Markovits is currently in Europe (serving as a Visiting Professor of International Politics in Vienna and following the European soccer championship matches), where Obamamania runs rampant. There are a range of different reasons for that enthusiasm, all of them understandable...

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