1.0 link 142311 <![CDATA[All Votes are Final -- Campaign Couture? Not So Much]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patt-morrison/all-votes-are-final----ca_b_142311.html The McCain-Palin ticket promised to do something to boost the economy, and even though it lost, it kinda sorta did.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the luxury store Neiman Marcus got whomped with a 26.8% decline in sales from last October. Other chains like Saks and Nordstrom took a big hit, too. And the month before, in September, Neiman Marcus' sales figures were down by 11% from a year earlier.

Imagine how much worse those numbers might have been if it...

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