Abraham Lincoln was elected garnering less than 40% of the popular vote...aside from TV, polls are the worst invention in American political history, they relegate all intelligent thought to meaningless 30 second quips and we end up focusing on images and perceptions - like electability - rather than on character, policy, and ability. Hunter has been a great Congressman and would make a fine president.
I had high hopes that the internet would allow us to break through that, but it probably has not been the case.
There’s the possibility that only right now are mainstream americans even starting to pay attention, so we could see a real upsurge on boards like FR for information. Unfortunately, if it happened right now, we’re not well prepared for such an event and the frustration factor would set in quickly.
It might serve Free Republic for us to have some Newbie threads on the candidates, where we don’t post anything but the candidate’s positions on issues, and then have the moderator lock the thread so it can’t be hijacked.
Maybe I’ll raise it up the flagpole to Jimrob to see if he salutes it.