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Re:White House responds to Patent Petition by plasma on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @12:00AM (#3185357)
It's common for politicians to sit on the fence, otherwise they risk alienating some of their voters.

They say things like (not a quote) 'we need to balance both sides' etc even when the idea is truly stupid.

Only a few politicians have some balls to make a decision upfront.

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Re:White House responds to Patent Petition by JVirissimo on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @06:36AM (#3186073)
Politicians that "have some balls" stop getting elected to public office. Your comment is simply a less precise restatement of the Median Voter Theorem, which is very well known to political-economists.
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