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Do voters vanish because elections bore them?
In this presidential election year, we are embarked on a bold experiment in democracy. This may come as a surprise, since the drone of this presidential campaign, already in its fifth month, hardly qualifies as mildly interesting, let alone bold. But that’s the point. Never before has the nation’s electorate been asked to endure the politicking of two uncontested presidential nominees for the better part of a year.
Can democracy withstand a campaign so excruciatingly long that voters die of boredom long before election day?
How boring is this campaign? So boring that, since John McCain dropped out, pundits have been reduced to months of feverish speculation as to who will be the vice presidential candidates.


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