Saturday 4 September 2010

Sentences to ponder

A nice observation from Ezra Klein via Marginal Revolution:
Campaigns are built to fool us into thinking that we're voting for individuals. We learn about the candidate's family, her job, her background -- even her dog. But we're primarily voting for parties. The parties have just learned we're more likely to vote for them if they disguise themselves as individuals. And American politics would work better if we understood that.

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