Walking around money and people to hand it out, you bet it works. Gratitude for good precinct results for the precinct workers too.
And I also agree that there is a subtantial population of squishy people, soccer moms, teachers, and so on. These are not critical thinkers. Every decision made by these people is last minute, and follows the emotion.
Outside of this forum, and a few others visited by political junkies such as us, I dare say most voters are represented by your sentence above.
Emotion is a powerful force, and not very well controlled by most, and in deft hands can be manipulated easily without a seam showing.
That is why money is the mother's milk of politics, it helps to reach the afore mentioned voters.
Voters being played like violins, and too stupid, or simply ignorant and non caring, to realize they are being used.
Politics, in a nutshell.
Daggum. I am a teacher. And I do NOT resemble your comment.
I am a mom to kids who played soccer - and I chauffeured them and their teammates in a mini-van. I am not a hover-mother.
Perhaps if I applied my critical thinking skills, I would not bother to reply to your post. However, I am feeling the emotion of being disrespected...
Maybe you do not personally know/interact with very many teachers and base your statement on (mis-)perceived stereotypes.
I invite you to dialogue and hope you will rethink your opinion pertaining to teachers.
~ lyby