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A profile of 19 th -century illustrator Thomas Nast credits him with popularizing Santa Claus, electing Ulysses Grant, and ruining William "Boss" Tweed.
- Regulations promulgated under section 414(b) shall not prohibit a source from electing to become an affected unit under section 417 .
The weirdest thing, to my mind, is the way the candidates and the media all seem to pretend that we are electing a benevolent dictator who, once elected, will snap his fingers, and the thousands of pages of position papers drawn up by his campaign staff will automatically become the law of the land.
We're electing someone to run the government, not minister to the condition of our souls.
I suspect this is just the sort of question the technique of electing presidents was designed to answer.