by Butler Shaffer I have received a number of e-mails – as well as responses from my students and one of my colleagues – concerning the ballot exercise of which I wrote in my previous article. In identifying two hypothetical candidates, not by name but by policies for which they stood, most readers and students were surprised to discover that the first candidate was a composite of the American "founding fathers," while the latter represented Adolf Hitler. From more than a few I received the following complaint: "if you had told us that the second candidate believed in locking up … Continue reading LIII – What's in an Election?