The Affirmative Case

Today we begin a new series at Political Machine. Titled The Affirmative Case, our bloggers will put forth the positive reasons that he or she will be supporting John McCain or Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.

Though it goes against basic blogging instincts, each writer's endorsement will stubbornly refrain from any and all attacks on the opposing candidate. Our hope is that you, the readers, will engage these posts in a similar spirit, refraining, if but for a brief time, from the impulse to view the race in negative terms.