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What more appropriate a BuzzFlash premium for election day than the quintissential American populist rock album that is as exuberantly hopeful as it is wistful and feeling betrayed about the American Dream.

The Reaganites couldn't even understand one song that was highly critical of how America abandons a Veteran.

Springsteen is such a masterful rocker that his stellar performance, lyrics and vocals -- along with the fine-tuned back-up of his band -- make you believe in America, because he himself exemplifies such accomplishment, skill and enthusisam, even as he sings about lost opportunities.

Because, Springsteen is quintissentially American in believing that there is one more opportunity for success, happiness and fulfilment down the road, awaiting one last uplifting ride in a pink Cadillac.

He's a populist poet -- lamenting and celebratory -- but always wrapping any regret in the power of his songs and 10,000 watt delivery.

Unlike the complete failures who run the country, Springsteen is a brilliant success. It would be cliched to say that in this album he captured an American sound of reflection and celebration for the 80s and 90s, but cliches sometimes ring true.

Bruce is the American rebel, the rock poet, the rock star, the populist -- the soul of the middle American unsure of what his country has to offer him or her, but willing to gamble on a last shot of "glory days."

Springsteen never loses hope in his music -- and neither will we: in this "anthem" of an album or in the promise of democracy and our Constitution.

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