Gay Marriage

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1 (11) |
2 (412) |
4 (1) |
5 (2) |
9 (15) |
A (1527) |
B (1090) |
C (1831) |
D (973) |
E (1213) |
F (774) |
G (701) |
H (978) |
I (999) |
J (470) |
K (107) |
L (612) |
M (1143) |
N (592) |
O (243) |
P (1956) |
Q (51) |
R (1245) |
S (1153) |
T (743) |
U (241) |
V (369) |
W (568) |
x (3) |
Y (39) |
Z (14) |

I don't know about you but I have lost my appetite for politics

It may be the season.

It may be the lack of sunshine.

It may well be that I am eager to move into a different direction and try something new.

For now, I'm sick of politics.

I'm sick of Diebold machines and too-close to call dubiously recounted elections.

I am sick of more Iraqis being blown up into smithereens and having most of the US' mainstream media still not call it a civil war.

I am sick of hearing pollsters say Obama, McCain and Giuliani stand a chance of getting elected to the presidency.

I am sick of Hillary too.

I am sick of having my kids be escorted to their backpacks in our post office because the government now thinks it OK to treat a 6 year-old with the same level of paranoia that gets the Lincoln Memorial closed down.

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Front-runners are usually focused on racing each other. They often do not realize that when people cannot decide between two leading candidates -- and it doesn't matter whether we are talking about politicians or consumer appliances -- our decision can be subtly swayed by whoever is in third place.

Psychologists call this the decoy effect: In a perfectly rational world, third candidates should only siphon votes away from one or both of the leading contenders. Under no circumstances should they cause the vote share of either front-runner to increase. In the actual world, however, third candidates regularly have the unintended effect of making one of the front-runners look better than before in the minds of undecided voters.

— Shankar Vedantam, The Decoy Effect, or How to Win an Election - washingtonpost.com