When an outsider can understand the voting public, why can’t our politicians?
Willful indifference. Our elites don’t want to understand us. They want us to shut up and submit.
The disconnect actually becomes amusing when it’s an issue like amnesty, which 95% of the elites support and 70% of average people are vehemently against. The elites must think they’ve been hit by a Mack truck. The heartening thing is that those situations, Average Joe still wins.
If this reporter understands the American voting public I did not see any evidence of it in the article. \
What I saw was a reporter who came to this country with a preconceived notion of what kind of people occupied “Fly Over Country”.
This article wreaks of condescension.
This reporter sought out the type of individual that fit his vision of the Midwest voter or he decided not to write about any thoughtful voters that he happened upon.
Yes he may accurately describe the common opinions of most people in the middle states but you must notice that he does not mention any single individual that he spoke to that had a substantive comment of why he/she would vote or not vote for any candidate. All he mentions are people with very shallow views.
This reporter thinks that the majority of Mid-Americans are rubes and wrote this article accordingly.
Does he really understand the voting public? Seems to me he is pulling some punches with respect to HRC, only discussing the gender issue and not getting into anything scandalous with respect to her. As others on this thread have pointed out, the general tone in this article smacks of Euro socialist-elitism.