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Johonny

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41. None- we don't need these things anymore

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 07:44 PM

Oct 2012

it is 24-7 news on 3 stations and business news on what 3 more. Plus other channels like clear. This election cycle has lasted over a year. The last one lasted over a year. Why do we need face to face debates that are nothing but political theater a few weeks before people vote.

Either kill the 1 year run up, or kill these debates. I can't fake pretending I don't know anything about these people foreign policies to be interested in seeing if one or both lie about it to entertain me.

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