Reply #54: Well I agree with you completely on that. I believe the contest

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was akin to the "nuclear" option although certainly not to that degree. If they would have "had the goods" and could have made a good faith presentation of same, win or lose I would have been behind it 100%. But it was usurping a very serious and important proceedure in half hearted political move having little practical affect. I believe after seeing the 2 hour debate the average American percieved it as a bit of grandstanding and we ended up with a net negative out of it. This is not even mentioning that if we ever do it again we have raised the bar on what needs to be presented in order to be taken seriously. In other words we spent political capital and got nothing in return