Nicholas F. Benton: What is Your Candidate

So, what’s the point? In all the talking and posturing by the heavy field of presidential candidates in both parties so far, it’s not easy to get a clear handle on their differences. Many among the professional political ranks, of course, view it all from the standpoint of so-called “electability,” and that goes to honing the candidate to fit the preferred expectations of the voting public.

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