Total BS article. The average voter wouldn’t have a clue about the issues Forbes claims is so important. The average voter does, however, totally understand “free stuff”. And it would appear that’s about all they DO understand. I suppose such understanding is a consequence of generations of entitlement rolls and government school propaganda.
Also, exit polls showed that about half the voters still blamed George W. Bush for the lousy economy. How do you combat such a large amount of ignorance? Romney ran a half-hearted campaign and shoulders a big part of the blame for this defeat but we also have a large segment of the population that wants to be taken care of by the government entitlement system. I think even Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum would have also had an uphill struggle to win the presidency with nearly half of the electorate against them before any vote was cast.