“Unfortunately, if that’s really the case, and it is as bad as we’re both pessimistically inclined to believe, then all of our candidates are doomed. None of them are stupid enough to communicate effectively with the masses.”
It is. Which is why Obama won. Which is why policy issues don’t really matter to most. It’s about media manipulation to keep Obama in office. And conservative manipulation to to get him out. All income generators btw.
The voters are in the middle, know not much, and will go with the candidate who makes them feel good, they feel they can trust, and they LIKE . . . IF they can decide. That’s it. Overstimulation and subsequent turn-off result from bombardment on issues they don’t understand and don’t care to understand. Most people have their own overbearing personal problems to deal with and don’t pay attention to much more than their own pocketbooks at the very least, in the very end. But you know that. Constitutional issues? Who really gives a fig . . . except the Paulies and the Tea Partiers. Our culture has changed. Wish it wasn’t so.