RETIRING TWO TOPICS

The posts and comments on wasted votes and spoiler candidates have had several weeks’ run and
had some lively attention. "Spoiler candidates," in particular, caught the attention of Sirius Radio and Sirius Radio has proposed that I touch upon it along with some topics of my own in an interview soon to be arranged. I’ll let it run until a week after the interview. Then I’ll set it aside from the postings, along with wasted votes, which I’ll set aside now. Both topics, as I said when I posted them, relate to logic for politics, in the simple and informal sense in which I’m using the term "logic." However, they do not belong to the center of concern that I would like to have the blog concentrate on, namely, successes and failures in the argumentation currently being carried on by politicians and political commentators. I wish to renew that focus; and to do so, I’ll follow up this note with a post on the objections to Obama’s renouncing public financing.