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The Road Not Taken

By Brent E. Zepke, Esq.

Jan 15, 2026
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Robert Frost conveyed a great deal of wisdom in his poem “The Road Not Taken,” which begins:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

In presidential elections the road typically taken is to elevate the vice president to p…

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