There are, I know, many fine reasons not to indulge in the '08 game. It's a distraction from '06; it's a political lifetime between now and then, and anything can happen to change the calculus; it focuses on personalities rather than message; it plays to the press's prurient jones for horserace over substance; etc.
But maybe there's also a productive purpose for these fantasy matchups. Maybe they can be tools to figure out -- right now, today -- what we...
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