Certainly we’ve come a long way since I was a kid and so disappointed to find the Watergate hearings live on 4 out of our 5 channels all day long.
The Low Info voter will be concerned with who is on Dancing With The Stars, what’s happening in the NBA Playoffs, what fool thing is Lindsay Lohan or Kanye West doing now, will my SNAP card scan and do I have minutes left on my Obamaphone?
The thing that will get to the Low Info Voter IMO will be when Obamacare kicks-in in earnest. When they discover they are being denied health services they want, AND it’s not free, things are gonna get very, very ugly indeed.
That was my point. If this were a Republican president the IRS hearings would be on live on all the tv networks all day long. This would cause that R president to resign soon. but now it hidden on c=span 27 and I didn’t see it mentioned on the news. There was hardly anything on the IRS hearings even on drudge. People don't see that the news media controls what people know, what they have in their mind, what they talk about. so the news media creates a false reality.
The media says “Obama is a democrat and so cares about you. all these problems and scandals caused by Bush. Obama is trying hard to solve all problems ( and give you more goodies) but evil Republicans who only care about the rich and are racists, woman hating old white men they Republicans won't work with Obama so everything is Republicans fault.” and most Americans believe that media narrative