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Give people shiny political celebrity high-profile jobs so they can win popularity contests against other people who want high-profile jobs. we have a government to work on problems that we have as a people, as a country. problems not working themselves out interpersonally or in the marketplace. government is for something. we have one for a reason. that's why you hear people now talking about the passage of health reform in the same breath as civil rights. a social experiment such as medicare. nancy pelosi used the giant gavel this weekend that was used when medicare was established. not with...

House. and that's because these questions rely on a fallacy, a mistake, a big analytical fault line that runs right underneath the way we cover the race for the presidency. we like to focus on characters and campaigns and people. we believe in ads and messaging and we believe in speeches. too often the way we understand presidential elections is really no different than the way we understood our high school elections. they're both just big popularity contests and the winner is whoever is cooler, whoever has a better campaign, whoever will buy us beer. and god bless the american voter for this....

Line that runs right underneath the way we cover the race for the presidency. we like to focus on characters and campaigns and people. we believe in ads and messaging and we believe in speeches. too often the way we understand presidential elections is really no different than the way we understood our high school elections. they're both just big popularity contests and the winner is whoever is cooler, whoever has a better campaign, whoever will buy us beer. and god bless the american voter for this. he doesn't and she doesn't get the credit they deserve. the american public are not that shall...

Probably something has to happen, especially from the democrats' perspective but i think you're right or the insiders are right about one thing: i don't think this is an issue like health care that people get and understand when you're talking about health care. this is an issue, people say do you want to clean up wall street, people on all sides say sure, then when you get to the details it gets confusing and both sides say one thing means another, they contradict each other on the sail points and you may be right they get to a point where the electorate on the whole says i don't really belie...