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Kamiya's evaluation of the Iraq votes are too simple: 'Clinton votes tough, like a man, because she is a woman' etc. We've had a lot of binary decision making in the US for the last several years. Perhaps everyone has bought into this sort of mindset, but such rigid thinking is not appropriate for anything but the most simple problems. While it appears inevitable that binary thinking is going to be pervasive during the election, assuming everyone thinks that way most of the time only validates the toddler-like mentality that has been the norm for the Bush administration.