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I am writing this column Tuesday morning as Americans vote in their presidential election. Wednesday morning we should know who wins, and Americans would have experienced another quite spectacular exercise in electoral democracy that they can be proud of. Nowhere else in the world does a national leadership achieve incumbency.

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