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Ahead of Midterm Elections, Anguish and Anxiety in U.S. - TIME Quote: I found the same themes dominant everywhere — a rethinking of basic assumptions, a moment of national introspection. There was a unanimous sense that Washington was broken beyond repair. But the disgraceful behavior of the financial community, and its debilitating effects on the American economy over the past 30 years, was the issue that raised the most passion, by far, in the middle of the country. Many Americans also were confused and frustrated by the constant state of war since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. But for every occasion they raised Afghanistan, they mentioned China 25 times; economics completely trumped terrorism as a matter of concern
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Ahead of Midterm Elections, Anguish and Anxiety in U.S. - TIME Quote: This is an abridged version of an article that appears in the Oct. 18, 2010, print and iPad editions of TIME magazine.