Cautiously optimistic

"In 2000, the supreme court decided a disputed Florida result and put a Republican, George W Bush, in the White House instead of the Democrat Al Gore. Though of course the justices could not know it, they had put America on the road to war in Iraq, economic crisis, the rise of the evangelical right and a deepening political divide."

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Elections are private affairs drawn on the needs of the people and the persuasion of the person who wishes to lead regardless of his motivation and the consequences that inevitably follow    In God We Trust  opinion  blogger 

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