Awash in anxiety, Americans look to shift course (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
By By STEVEN THOMMA — As they do perhaps once in a generation - 1932, 1968 and 1980 - Americans this week will choose a new president and chart a new course in a time of economic turmoil, social upheaval and great anxiety. Financial markets are in turmoil. Jobs are disappearing overseas. Pensions and retirement accounts are dwindling. Terrorists are vowing death to more Americans. U.S. troops …