Some years back, I met a woman in her 90s who had decided, on her 75th birthday, to quit voting for politicians. She hadn't voted since. When I asked her why she'd stopped voting, she said, "I don't want to encourage them."
Watching this ugly Clinton-Obama duel, I can understand what she was talking about.
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