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		<title>The Folly of Conventional Wisdom</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite what the pundits say, tilting at windmills can be a winning strategy. | There were plenty of winners and losers in last week&#8217;s election.&nbsp; But perhaps the biggest loser of all was conventional wisdom. Consider the national election.&nbsp; As of late 2007, conventional wisdom asserted that Hillary Clinton had the Democratic nomination sewn up, and that McCain ought to pull the plug on his faltering, underfunded campaign.&nbsp; Conventional wisdom went 0-for-2 on that one.&nbsp; If anything, political prognosticators in Washington State fared even...]]></description>
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