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You can kinda see this with Bitcoin and the mining pools. A vulnerability of Bitcoin is a group having a large portion of hashing power under their control. While there have been a few pools coming near to 51% of the hash power, miners have managed to spread themselves out among various pools to keep the hash power diversified.

I believe this is the source for what Stefan mentioned about Putnam. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00176.x/abstract From the abstract:

It wasn't anywhere because the world loves Obama and the Democrats and their ilk.

I agree. They're political bed buddies. The fact that any criticism of Islam being infinitely more misogynistic than any Western country is met with ridicule and strawmen and insults (sexist, bigot, Islamophobe), gives credence to the idea that the Left sees no wrong with Islam in any way, shape, or form.