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  "I watched the foreign policy debate. ...Do I care about Mr. Obama's 'zinger' involving horses and bayonets? (Is this, btw, Freudian imagery deliberately designed to appeal to working women?) Do I care whether Mr. Romney thinks Syria is Iran's outlet to the sea? Am I both horrified and fascinated that Mr. Romney can radically change policy positions from day to day and still perhaps be elected? Well, yes to the last one. But that takes us back to why the debates have become a lobotomized art form. The answer, in large part — almost entirely — is the electoral college. The system, the candidates, indeed all of us, are sitting around waiting for people in Toledo Ohio to make up their minds. It's worse than absurd. It's tragic.

  My guess is that if the election were decided instead by the national popular vote a very different set of swing groups would emerge. Some of them might even require intelligent questions and answers."

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  • <- THISTheBlueOne
  • Until we realize that alot of change can be made by non-partisan structural reform, we will have the same shit over and over againTheBlueOne
  • over again.TheBlueOne
  • nice BlueOne, but who "‹ This's" his own comment? lolwhhipp
  • Popular vote would mean Gore would've won, since he won the popular vote.aaux

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