My goodness gracious me. I never expected that it would even come to this. Pushing a sure thing into doubt, making McCain look better with every day we pass. Well, ok, maybe allowing him more time in the stasis chamber to slow his aging...
The main problem is that we are confronted with two good choices for our nominee, two different paths to victory. One wishes to take us the way we have always gone, using convention to push swing states and hold the big ones steadfast. It has worked in the past, in fact, it worked with the only democratic president during my lifetime.
The other road to victory is a little more mysterious. It involves reliance on a whole lot of factors that people haven't considered before. Primarily, the goodness and intelligence of the American people. It doesn't involve ads that offer ominous audio and dubious video. And in doing so, it tacitly assumes that people will not fall for those tactics. By leaving out large corporate donors, it relies on the generosity of a larger population.
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