Of course, candidates are always deeply flawed and their platforms highly imperfect, but with so much at stake, we all have to make difficult choices.
Of course, it's worth pointing out that the choice to use the Snowden situation as the basis for this particular study could be flawed – after all, social platforms, including Facebook, were implicated as being among the places the government tapped to listen in on citizens' conversations.
Quantification of performance is difficult even with idealized data, and while measurements have been proposed such as the theoretical power to discover a single copy loss or gain [ 7], or the 'functional resolution' of the platform [ 6], these tend either to measure a very specific aspect of the platform, or appear flawed under close examination.
And an official with the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which has endorsed Mr. Gore, said that despite its flaws, the platform was generally acceptable to organized labor, the single most important constituency in the Democratic coalition.
Dismissing doing any work at all on these new platforms out of hand is flawed thinking.
If the official Polish inquiry was flawed, the previous government of Donald Tusk and the Civic Platform (PO) — the chief political opposition to PiS — emerge as dangerous co-conspirators.
Medicaid is a "black hole," the platform says, and is too big and too flawed to be run out of Washington.
For instance, the opportunistic approach of Wendell Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential nominee, to his party's platform exposed crucial weaknesses that would almost certainly have flawed a Willkie presidency.
VW's shared platforms make it vulnerable if one of them turns out to be flawed.Sprawl and loss of focus are another risk.
