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Nation: Vox Populi

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TIME

They have such refined and delicate

palates

That they can discover no one

worthy of their ballots,

And when someone terrible gets

elected

They say, “There, that’s just what 1expected!”

—Ogden Nash

The Census Bureau last week estimated that out of the 121.5 millionAmericans old enough to vote this year, 47.5 million will not.

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