“that’s fatastic information. How do you know all this?”
The same way any other political junkie does. Follow current and former campaign officials on twitter from both campaigns, read the blogs of political analysts from all sides, liberal, conservative, libertarian, independent, green party, watch shows on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, the major networks. Read papers from all the major cities both north and south, east and west, red state, blue state. Read WSJ, WashPo, NYTimes, New York Post, Washington Times and their major columnists....all of them.
They key is to cast a wide net for the information, not just conservative media. It’s amazing what you can learn about the other side once you learn to tolerate hippies and bleeding hearts opinions. I still like the red meat of my own views but I’ve never become an expert at anything by staying in my intellectual comfort zone.
Brilliant. Too many people here are stuck in a closed-loop system. Consequently they are always shocked when things don’t turn out their way because of concentrated anecdotal ‘evidence’ that is only apparent not factual. Happened in 2008, and now. Just because ‘all your friends and workmates’ think one way doesn’t imply unanimity in sample pools outside your own. Hence the closed loop fallacy.