1.   Conscientious voters will take advantage of every opportunity to sort the electoral wheat from the chaff.

2.   No matter how they go about it, conscientious voters will do their best to fulfill their responsibility as citizens of the greatest nation on the planet.

3.   No matter how deep the mud, conscientious voters almost always manage to wade through it and arrive at a responsible decision when they enter the voting booth.

4.   The preliminary rounds can only have been confusing to conscientious voters trying to make sense of the race.