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Panic Attacks: Voters Unload at GOP Rallies

A selection from the array of anti-Obama paraphernalia. Activists outside rallies openly talk about Obama as a terrorist, citing his name and purported ties to Islam in the fashion of the viral e-mails that have rocketed around the Internet for over a year now. And although true progressives and leftists find the notion that either Pelosi or Obama will lead us towards a 'hard-left' agenda, the real story here is the nature of how the right-wingers of America will react to an Obama Presidency.

The unmistakable momentum behind Barack Obama's campaign, combined with worry that John McCain is not doing enough to stop it, is ratcheting up fears and frustrations among conservatives.

And nowhere is this emotion on plainer display than at Republican rallies, where voters this week have shouted out insults at the mention of Obama, pleaded with McCain to get more aggressive with the Democrat and generally demonstrated the sort of visceral anger and unease that reflects a party on the precipice of panic.

The calendar is closing and the polls, at least right now, are not.

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