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Stav Blackmane Interview: Part1

Also, Part 2, where the reader-submitted questions get a lot more fun.

Excerpt from Part 1:
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1. Why do you seem to still be trying to position yourself as a “real” candidate – the whole “dark horse” thing – rather than as a running gag

It is necessary… It is required that I position myself as a real candidate for two main reasons. 1) I want my ideas, my positions on various issues, to have as great an impact as they can, which won’t happen if I’m just running a joke campaign. There is considerable historical precedent supporting this, by the way, and even candidates who have no chance of winning in a particular election – or even grabbing the nomination – can force changes to the party’s platform if their supporters are numerous enough or vocal enough to demand that their concerns be addressed.

2) If I had won the nomination, I would have been a ferocious campaigner, relentlessly hammering the President, his cabinet, his friends, his sock-puppets in Congress, and his sycophants and stenographers in the media, all the way up to my victory speech on election night, and beyond.

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