I tried to keep feelings out of my decision-making process when I went to vote this morning. I did not succeed because disappointment in the options on the ballot paper is an apt response to the state of the political race.

Given that I knew beforehand that I was not entirely happy, why did I decide to vote at all? And, more crucially, how did I decide who to vote for?..

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