I think xsmommy is right, most people are gravely concerned about the economy right now. My 26 year old daughter has two banks she deals with- a biggie and a small hometown bank and she called me last week to ask me which bank I thought was safer for most of her money to be. Last night I was in a college computer lab where the freshman were supposed to be working on a reading assignment, this is a remedial reading class and all they could talk about was whether or not we are going into a major depression like the 1930s.
People who have never before spoken to me about the economic situation or finances, have been talking about it and expressing concern this week. NOT A SOUL has said, gee, who ya think is gonna win the debate! LOL!
This is something that is only opinion and can’t be proven one way or the other. But many people don’t even use banks, and many believe they are insured (do you?) up to $100,000. There are simply many people who pay little attention to the news and politics until they are directly affected. There are 300,0000,000 people in the US, but if we added up the total audiences for all the evening news shows, broadcast and cable, we’d scarcely get to 60,000,000.