You’d think an election would be like one huge playdate with me and my BFF, the institution of government. But there are a number of reasons my diploma will read “International Comparative Government” and not “The American Political Machine.” Reasons 1 and 2 are the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Conventions, respectively. Reason 3 is that Cindy McCain makes me nervous in an vicious-automaton-on-the-attack kind of a way.
