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Hickman points out that married women in general tend to be very pro-incumbent, which somewhat undermines the argument that voting for Bush in 1992 and Clinton in '96 represents some sort of tectonic shift.
It undermines itself with its own idealism: Anderson boasts that his Candidate Selector screens out superficial factors such as advertising, hype, and image, and allows voters to base their choices solely on the issues.
Davis surveys disaster stories set in Los Angeles, but he's an insecure literary critic, and his emphasis on the fairy tale aspect of natural disaster undermines the facts that have gone before.
The helplessness of Lucia in this fantasy, and the idea of "Bacchus ravisht by his tree," may make us uneasy on feminist grounds; but the corrective reality of the last line--the physical fact of the helpless erection--corrects and undermines the imagination's unreal fantasy of domination.
The article concludes, "Even the mere perception of bias or unfairness undermines the Olympic ideal.