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Borowitz -- Integrity Disqualifies Sanders for White House

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Satire: According to some experts, the electoral system has developed a number of safeguards over the past few decades to prevent someone with independence and backbone from occupying the Presidency. "Bernie Sanders's failure to become a member of either major political party excludes him from the network of cronyism and backroom deals required under our system to be elected," said Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. "Though that failure alone would disqualify Sanders, the fact that he is not beholden to a major corporate interest or investment bank would also make him ineligible."
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