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Confused by an election? You may well have reason to be. But it’s easy to feel you understand. Lately, legions of candidates and commentators have been releasing thousands of sound bites to explain all.

You can now see elections as simply as they wish you to, because recently their views flooded the news. You’ve likely heard some. What might surprise you is how many fit any election, anywhere.

Do such explanations really define an election? Do they agree with each other? And what do they tell us about the state of democracy?

To give you a better feeling for the latest experiment in democracy, we’ve assembled the following “Ode to This Election”. We condensed recent explanations from the news into a lyrical presentation reflecting this year’s campaigns.

If you had to walk a gauntlet of politicos and pundits, each pushing a different view on you, this is what you might hear:

This election is a two-horse race
What’s important to me in this election is a vision
This election is not about who’s best, who’s prudent, or who has the slickest TV ads
This election is more intense
This election is between you and me

This election is about the future of this country
This election is about my state
This election is very significant for us, as a community
This election is about our candidate and the good work she has done

This election is about fixing health-care, providing education, protecting borders, balancing civil liberties with national security, and how best to prosecute the war
This election, it is imperative to elect people with high moral values
In this election, God is in control
This election is a no-brainer

This election is about honor, dignity and comity in this country
This election is going to be all war, all the time
This election is about a referendum on the war
This election is about amnesty as much as about war or taxes
This election is about power

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This election is a decision between receding or advancing
This election is about dealing with terrorism on the offense, or going back to being on the defense
This election is bringing out of the closet the crowd who will say anything to get votes
This election is a national intelligence test

This election is all about which party has the most aggrieved victims
This election is about creating a new majority in the Senate
This election is about leadership, not party affiliation
This election is worth $500 million, if it will get the Party back to controlling Congress
This election is not worth $500 million to the voters; it is worth that to interest groups buying support for their causes

This election is about the issues that we’re confronting right now
This election is about a finishing of business, an older sort of politics
This election is critical to the future of our country
This election is about change; a big part of that change is energy security
This election is about an electorate that is frustrated, dissatisfied, and just plain ready for change nationally

This election is important because of an accumulation of power in the executive
This election is being fought on the streets
This election is about decency maybe more than anything else.
This election is meaner, dirtier, and more divisive

This election is not about race
This election is a fight for the hearts and souls of black folks
This election is not just about winning; it’s about working to change the country
This election is all about winning

This election is in jeopardy
This election is going to be very, very close
I can’t wait until this election is over

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