Then you ought to have heeded me sooner! Let us suppose we have before us two men who are, in their souls, equally boring. Two men who each might cause even the Dean himself to slump into his soup. But one of these men is a Rifter and one is from Tantervale, by far the most boring of the Marches. Surely the Rifter will benefit from his novelty by receiving more votes than the Tantervalian even without your donated point?