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Comment author: Peterdjones 03 March 2013 06:36:12PM -1 points [-]

Presumably if you can predict that Candidate A will ruin the economy, then you vote for Candidate B instead.

I can only predict what will happen on the basis that a) their policies will have a certain effect and b) they will actually implement their policies. Which gets back to the original point: if they are not going to do what they say, what is the point of voting?

Comment author: wedrifid 04 March 2013 04:33:38AM 0 points [-]

I can only predict what will happen on the basis that a) their policies will have a certain effect and b) they will actually implement their policies.

That seems to be a significant limitation.

Which gets back to the original point: if they are not going to do what they say, what is the point of voting?

Fortunately, not everybody has said limitation.

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