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    <title><![CDATA[Re: Debate #2: Just how smart is the average voter?]]></title>

    
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      <![CDATA[The question of voter stupidity was asked by H.L. Mencken in 1920 and finally answered by the "election " of George "Dubya" Bush in 2000:<br>
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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
        
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      <![CDATA[Pres. Obama's campaign is on the ropes, and the only possible reason Ms. Towler can fathom is that voters are stupid.
        
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      <![CDATA[LOL. If voters were intelligent, almost nobody would ever have heard of Obama.
        
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