Dearsweet and I are registered to the same party, but often disagree about who should be elected. The trick we employ to keep sleeping together has been for us to talk about what is right about a candidate rather than to disparage the alternate. We also enjoy betting sexual favors on the outcome of many elections.

Over the last twenty five years, her sense of the electable has proven to be slightly better than mine.

Those of us who care enough to vote have just over three months remaining to study each candidate before making up our minds. Both have flaws and admirable points; the feisty but sometimes cranky old warrior John McCain makes a fine contrast to the rousing but sometimes inconsistent young visionary Barak Obama. It seems to me that the primaries have provided Americans the clearest choice we have had for a good long while.

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