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Shes the wacky sideshow, the one everyone looks at askance.

Marianne W. will not make it to hometowns.

Shes theBachelorcontestant with bird lover on her identifying chyron, while everyone elses says realtor or professional athlete.

She is there to be made fun of before she is inevitably eliminated.

By now, the idea that we view politics through a reality-television lens iswell-troddenterritory, afamiliarlineofanalysisthatsoftenthrownoutas aneasyline of punditry.

Williamsons not alone in this.

(That said, some of them are also reducible to reality-show types entirely on their own power.

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