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Getting It
Barack Obama and John McCain both think they can win the election by accusing the other of not understanding America. In Friday's debate John McCain said six times that Barack Obama doesn't "understand" foreign policy. The next day Obama released an ad saying "McCain doesn't get" middle-class economics. So McCain volleyed back via satellite, saying it's Obama who "doesn't seem to get" how seriously our bank system failed. Obama swung back harder, reminding a Detroit crowd Sunday that it was most
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It Failed
The bailout crashed, and so did democracy. Democracy is not perfect, and one of its many imperfections is that voters tend to be ignorant. I don't mean to be insulting. There are, after all, perfectly rational reasons for this ignorance. In a republic of 300 million, the chances of an individual vote affecting a national outcome are slim, and it makes little sense for the individual voter to invest scarce resources in learning about complicated issues, like health care or foreign policy or, just
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