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Nothing is fair or objective about the entire nominating process. It isn't fair that Florida doesn't count. It isn't fair that some states are clearly more important because they hold primaries earlier and shape the race. So to now decide after the process has begun that a part of it isn't fair is ridiculous. If you decide to change the process after it has begun to suit your preference that is hardly democratic and invalidates the whole system already underway.

THE BIGGER PICTURE: even if the process is objective and entirely democratic, it doesn't mean the results will be. It is clear that voters don't have the intelligence to think objectively - if their minds are so easily swayed, then their decisions are utterly superficial and subjective. Its sad - but its reality. A democratic choice is a shot in the dark - when voters are not skilled enough or informed enough to make the best decision. I don't know why people never seem to accept this. You only have to watch TV to see it in action - the average choice, the average taste - is just that: average.

If super-delegates want to decide - I could care less - maybe their preference will be slightly more informed then the mediocrity of the primary voters.

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UofO is a mediocre school at best. As competitive sports are for mediocrity a new stadium is a perfect fit!

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Art is tired. This concept of supporting the poor struggling egotistical artist is dead. Artists are the new preachers. Art is the new religion. Artists have the same mentality as evangelicals - they are always in fear, they think they are always right, they think everyone is against them and they think their view/work is the most important and everyone must know about it. I am a supporter of the arts and consider myself an artist, but I don't hold myself on this saintly level and fetishize the pompous - look at me nature - of what art inherently is.

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