A scene from "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee", photo by Joan Marcus from Playbill.com

Mass-Debating: A Better Method

Rabble Without a Cause

[17 September 2007]

by Bill Reagan

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A Presidential Spelling Bee is the perfect forum for a pre-primary debate. Which candidate can overcome a grueling series of 11-letter words and be crowned the champion, and which will insist there are two 'u's in nuclear?

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