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"At the start of the week, my colleague Rebecca Roberts wrote a fantastic post about the awe-inspiring amount of political participation has surrounded this historic race. &amp;quot;How do we make it last?&amp;quot; she asked. After a week of petty Canadian non-scandals, forced late night TV appearances, and another stalemate primary night, I see it&amp;#x27;s not going to be easy. And if, as they say, it gets &amp;quot;uglier,&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m going to be tempted to stop watching. I&amp;#x27;m wiped out&amp;amp;#8212;and I&amp;#x27;m not the only one who is tired and alienated, right? The negative back-and-forth between Clinton and Obama couldn&amp;#x27;t be more counter-productive. With the attacks and the mockery, Clinton doesn&amp;#x27;t come across as confident--if she&amp;#x27;s going to stay, she should stop denigrating her opponent and prove to voters that she believes in her own abilities regardless of Obama. Obama, meanwhile, has stooped just as low, and his comment that Clinton is &amp;quot;desperate&amp;quot; screams of&amp;amp;#8212;sorry&amp;amp;#8212;desperation. As Rebecca pointed out, the newly engaged public could just be in it for the historic-ness of it all. But if the candidates take away the grandiose nature of these elections and reduce the excitement to boredom with the usual he-said, she-said attacks, it will be even more &amp;quot;pathetic&amp;quot; than Hillary spending primary eve talking to Jon Stewart. This race has been fascinating because both Democratic contenders have so much to offer. One of the will inevitably be out, but how sad will it be if either of their fantastic legacies concludes with seven last weeks of ugly battles instead of triumphant efforts? Do you agree? &amp;amp;#8212;Fernanda"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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