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Independence and the economy

ROLLING Stone Mick Jagger apparently once confessed that while he made most decisions in his life after consulting his head or his heart, when it came to voting he generally relied on his pocket.

And when election strategist James Carville was running Bill Clinton's successful US presidential election campaign in 1992, one of the slogans he chose to put up on the wall was "The economy, stupid!", since immortalised as "It's the economy, stupid!".

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