Posted on 05/26/2016 12:37:46 PM PDT by Angels27
Voters demand that politicians speak as angrily and as disrespectfully as the voters feel.
As a professional focus group moderator, I’m about to make an admission that could cost me clients and even a career: I’ve lost control.
Northeastern moms are mad. California Tree Huggers are ticked off. Born Again Iowans are irate. I’ve led three dozen focus groups in more than a dozen states this year, and trying to moderate and mediate a sensible discussion about politics has become like feeding time at the crocodile enclosure. The moment a contentious topic is introduced, a cacophony of voices spew forward in rapid crescendo, each one louder and more breathless than the last. Within minutes, everyone is yelling, no one is listening and nothing is resolved. The public may despise most members of Congress, but we’ve sure gotten good at emulating them.
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Really 16 other candidates, if you counted them as they went down.
An election where the political class doesn’t get to pick the winner must seem like hell to them.
We're gonna need 10 plagues or something.
Not yet but I can hear the poodles bark.
(Apologies to all poodles who are offended by that comparison)
If Luntz reads your list at best he’s going to walk away bewildered.
More likely, he’s going to walk away shaking his head believing you to be an idiot.
Dissolve it?
HELL NO!
We’ve lived it their way, now they are going to live it our way, the way it’s been forever, until they came along and tried to turn this country into a shithole.
To hell with them if they don’t like it, there are a lot of places around the world for them.
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