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WePurrsevere

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39. While vetting is important, having a lot of time...

Wed Mar 28, 2018, 05:36 PM

Mar 2018

To do so doesn't necessarily guarantee a higher quality candidate from what I've seen.

IMO we'd be better off if candidates would do a better job vetting potential candidates as soon as they start to consider running and if the press would do their job sooner, much better and with less bias than they have been recently.

Meanwhile all the 'vetting' time that there was still kept Trump in the running close enough for a cheat to push him into winning.

Meanwhile Hillary was the best and most vetted candidate of my lifetime and yet there was also plenty of time for lies and disinformation to spread and do her a lot of harm.

IMO more time isn't always the answer in today's internet oriented world.

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