The day after last Tuesday's debate, as I was monitoring the Twitter feed for the post-debate debate, some news flashed across the screen that elicited more than one tweeted, all-cap, "WHOA!" Housing starts in September surged to their fastest pace in four years, up 15 percent over August, far exceeding the experts' predictions. In the diurnal bickerfest over Candy Crowley and Benghazi, liberals and conservatives agreed that this was impressive stuff.
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