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Democracy, said H. L. Mencken, is the theory that the people should get what they want and get it good and hard. This year’s American presidential election promises to make Mencken look like a Polyanna. Already polls show that Americans dislike both major candidates, and the mud has hardly yet been formed, let alone flung. […]

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The US election is six months off.  The major candidates, President Barack Obama and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney, are now known.  What should we expect from this campaign? First, we should recall that all US elections tend to have a similar rhythm, the build-up to the conventions in August, the convention hysteria itself, […]

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