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 Barry Wellman
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  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
  Centre for Urban & Community Studies           University of Toronto
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Today's Washington Post has an interesting article on the social dynamics
of selecting a president.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/30/AR2007123002287.html?wpisrc=newsletter

"The decisive factor ... is not the presence of influential people but
people who are easily influenced. Random, insignificant events are vastly
magnified by networks of such malleable people influencing one another,
and this tilts the race one way or another. Blind chance plays a big
role."

The pundits are merely gypsys.  The meek shall inherit the earth.

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