A Knoxville Mayoral candidate asked me Saturday if I was worried about elections at the national level. I told her something to the effect of it having to get uglier before it got better, or at least funnier. See? There's already reasonable talk coming out of the GOP: Sarah must be stopped.

This is the kind of ugly that might give a serious push for public financing of elections.

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