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Tuesday 9 October 2012

So it matters who wins. Just because improvements are incremental rather than transformative doesn’t mean they’re not important. The problem isn’t that there’s no difference between Obama and Romney but that there is insufficient difference between what Obama has delivered and is offering and what the country needs at a time when poverty is rising, wages have stalled, civil liberties have been suppressed, kill lists drawn up and drone attacks escalated. It is possible to indict the Republican party and vote for Obama without endorsing his record or making excuses for his failures. But it is not possible to understand his failures without recognising that an electoral system funded by the wealthy will never be capable of distributing resources and power equitably, regardless of who is in charge. Why would it? How could it? The fact that this is the choice Americans are faced with doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a better one. It simply reflects why, under these terms, a better choice is not possible. Gary Younge: Americans deserve a better choice in this election than the one they’ve got

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