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SheilaT

(23,156 posts) Wed Apr 29, 2015, 10:46 PM Apr 2015

"Franchise" by Isaac Asimov.

If I were dictator of this country, this story would be required reading every four years. Every election cycle I mention it, and it seems no one here has ever read it.

Here's a link to the story: http://www.6novels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27325.html

It is the single most prescient story about presidential politics I have ever read. It was first published in 1955.