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The Velveteen Ocelot

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2. IMO they should have assigned those positions randomly
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 03:50 PM
Aug 2019

instead of placing the highest-polling candidates at the center. That positioning gives those candidates an advantage in the minds of debate watchers - even if it's subconscious - and results in a corresponding subconscious devaluation of the remarks and opinions of those on the ends. It's like, Oh, ABC must have thought these two in the center were the best, that's why they put them in the center, so who cares about the losers on the ends?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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