also, there is no issue where a candidate can adjust their position by a couple degrees like a thermostat. issues are more like TV when i was young: there's channel 2, 4, 7, 9, 20, 32, 50, 56, and 62. if you're at 9 and you want to go higher, you have to go to 20 or then 32. there is no 15 or 25.
...maybe a candidate technically could with taxes or the minutiae of program funding - 25% vs. 28%, $14B vs. $15B, or whatever - but even those issues aren't argued about at that atomic level anymore.
May 13, 2025 20:24