<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Let The Greatest Man&nbsp;Win?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Mark Schmitt&#0160;<a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/103046/third-party-american-elect-michael-bloomberg" target="_self">thinks</a> that Americans Elect, the crowd-sourced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_Elect#How_it_works" target="_self">online campaign</a> to pick a presidential candidate, misunderstands politics:</p> <blockquote> <p>[T]he deepest problem with Americans Elect is its unspoken Great Man Theory of American politics (and this is a Great Man Theory: you can count on one hand the women among the 26 declared candidates and top 50 draft candidates for the AE nomination): All we need to break through Washington’s dysfunction, so goes the idea, is a president with the will to get things done.</p> </blockquote>]]></html></oembed>