"Perhaps someone will, if the campaign keeps up this way," he joked tersely. "There's over a month still to go, and Merlin forbid we be reduced to talking about actual politics."

Of course, people did ask him about plenty of issues, but he rarely got the feeling that many of the people he met outside his club really understood the nuances of different political issues. Even his more scandalous campaign platforms, like voting reform, only garnered superficial questions. Tabloid style questions, really. Do you plan to let girls vote before they're even out in society? and things like that.

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