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I'm about to head out for the ONE Campaign's launch of their ONE Vote initiative now, s
The ONE Campaign is about fighting disease and severe poverty in the developing world, and the idea of the ONE Vote initiative is to inject this issue into the presidential race. Honestly, this strikes me as the kind of topic where elite views matter a lot more than popular ones and there's probably nothing to be accomplished by trying to insert it into practical politics, but I suppose getting all the presidential candidates to at least address the subect (Edwards and to a lesser extent Obama have already done so that I'm aware of) is probably important to shaping elite views.
The ONE Campaign is about fighting disease and severe poverty in the developing world, and the idea of the ONE Vote initiative is to inject this issue into the presidential race. Honestly, this strikes me as the kind of topic where elite views matter a lot more than popular ones and there's probably nothing to be accomplished by trying to insert it into practical politics, but I suppose getting all the presidential candidates to at least address the subect (Edwards and to a lesser extent Obama have already done so that I'm aware of) is probably important to shaping elite views.
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