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Change Has Already Been Delivered—to Campaigning

The '08 version redrew the political map and ruptured the financing system, and more

By Gabriel Winant, Newser User

Posted Nov 3, 2008 9:27 AM CST

(Newser) – We can't be sure what kind of change the next president will bring, but we do know that presidential campaigns themselves will never be the same, writes Gerald F. Seib in the Wall Street Journal. Among this year’s innovations:

The campaigns have redrawn the

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