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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin P. Adams

1944

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Elections Political theory Politics

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1944

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Franklin P. Adams

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Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.

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