The enormous energy spent on analyzing candidates and predicting
elections is time wasted when the actual decisions are predetermined before the
voting takes place. Even excluding voter fraud from the final count, the party
selection process has made the decision. The pretense that primaries reflect the
will of the electorate deceives the registered voter, amuses the party insiders
and benefits the advertisement and media moguls. Ideas, policy positions and
core principles take a back seat to the art of spinning and negatively defining
the opponent.
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