Reflections on Elections

We’d mentioned in passing a few weeks back that the Bellingham Tea Party’s candidate forums at Whatcom Community College were excellent, and the Gristle would like to elaborate on that: They were excellent, both in the quality of the format and the professionalism of the moderator—Western Washington University pyschologist Robert Thorndike—which offered a brisk round-robin of questions and brief responses while keeping the angry polemics to a minimum.