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Can We Have a Democratic Election?
Elizabeth Drew
Efforts to manipulate the election threaten our process for picking a president
Willard Mitt Romney
Michael Tomasky
Romney seems in certain ways a fine and even rare person. He is diligent, industrious, and appears to be honest; he applies himself to problems, earnestly studying and following the lead of the data. He is a man of apparently deep personal virtue, generous with his money and time. He is very intelligent and has typically succeeded, wildly so, at nearly everything he’s done (except, interestingly, politics—he’s lost two races and won just one). But with all that, there still seems something missing in the man.
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