Originally Posted by nihilist moron

I agree that the topic is dead. Very few people on this forum give a flying F about presidential elections anymore.

Sure they do. But they may not give a flying F about JPT's original thesis that started this thread.

(and no-one seems able to correct a misspelled word in a thread title. I for one am tired of seeing "demoracy.")

But why shut down the thread? None of the posts are offensive, and people who don't like them can stop reading whenever they like.

That's correct. The only way to "shut down a thread" (barring action by the administrator) is neglect of it by all posters.