Voting On What Never Happened

As voters we are often asked to make judgments that we are not really equipped to make. For instance, the ideal balance of threats, military action, and sanctions vies a vie Iran is an incredibly complex problem, even for the minority of Americans who can locate Iran on a map and name it's dominant religion (Shi'a Islam), ethnicity (Persian), and language (Farsi).

But this November, it appears that voters will be asked to make an even harder decision than that: judge between two alternate...