As I was watching the GOP debate, I was wondering who would get the nomination.  Now, lots of people more obsessed than I will write reams of opinions about what the candidates actually said, and who would be the best at the job, and all that stuff that seems mostly irrelevant to elections.  I, on the other hand, have a completely untested decision-making method to determine who the GOP should nominate as their candidate.  Not who actually will get the nomination, mind you, but who should get it if the Republicans want to win the general election.  Sure, my method has only a passing acquaintance with reality (or maybe less – maybe they made eye contact across a crowded room once), but so does the primary system.

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