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EM 16: This Election Explained

Confused by an election? You may well have reason to be. But it’s easy to feel you understand. Lately, legions of candidates and commentators have been releasing thousands of sound bites to explain all.

You can now see elections as simply as they wish you to, because recently their views flooded the news. You’ve likely heard some. What might surprise you is how many fit any election, anywhere.

Do such explanations really define an election? Do they agree with each other? And what do they tell us about the state of democracy?

To give you a better feeling for the latest experiment in democracy, we’ve assembled the following “Ode to This Election”. We condensed recent explanations from the news into a lyrical presentation reflecting this year’s campaigns.

If you had to walk a gauntlet of politicos and pundits, each pushing a different view on you, this is what you might hear:

  This election is a two-horse race
  What’s important to me in this election is a vision

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