[SW6906]

I'd say they are in between sheeple and political junkies. They watch some of the Sunday shows and read the lamestream press, but they don't engage in sites like FR. They've been pretty good barometers of the general public's perception in the past. I think they think this is a "there's lots of smoke, there must be fire" kind of thing, couple with a lot of "they all do it", which is different than what they said during Clinton. For Clinton, they believed it was a witch hunt and "all about sex" which is exactly what the media fed them....

[browardchad]

I'd say they are in between sheeple and political junkies. They watch some of the Sunday shows and read the lamestream press, but they don't engage in sites like FR. They've been pretty good barometers of the general public's perception in the past. I think they think this is a "there's lots of smoke, there must be fire"

Good analysis -- and description of a syndrome played like a violin by the NYT and the broadcast media. Give them half the truth, scream it loudly, and then drop it when it appears to have no legs, but take occasional broadsides to keep the suspicion festering in the public conscience. The result is lingering doubt by a votership that allows themselves to be led by the nose.
When the good guys (I can't include all Repubs in that tag) learn to be proactive, rather than reactive, this may stop, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. You have to think like a liberal to anticipate a liberal, and conservatives are just not devious enough -- that may have been a virtue in the past, but it's swiftly becoming suicidal.