Thursday, March 15, 2012

Stupid voters

  • Last night, I stumbled upon Mother Jones Kevin Drum and Steve Benen of Washington Monthly having something of a congenial colloquy on The Weird Politics of Simpson-Bowles.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • In the video above, Politico Editor-in-Chief John Harris says "stupid" so many times that he begins to sound that way.
  • (Washington Post)
  • So you do get some results that seem stupid even if the voters themselves arent actually stupid. Anyway, he wrote this good piece, we put it up on the site, some people thought it went a little too far, it seemed too much like a rant.
  • (News Busters)
  • It's another to suggest that voters are stupid simply because they have lives outside of following the news and/or have different opinions than those who spin the news.
  • (Hotair.com)
  • Voters are appalled at President Barack Obama's handling "The first lesson you learn as a pollster is that people are stupid," said Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm.
  • (Politico.com)
  • "We will do better, in part because we are not stupid. We can count," Ayres said Thursday The Fox News poll of 1,200 Latino voters underscores the Republican Party's problems with the fast growing block of voters.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • Southern voters may care about Bible-based issues, but theyre also engaged on the economic ones. At least that's the theory.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • Media headlines have proclaimed that Labor keeps economy, jobs in focus.
  • (ABC Online)
  • Among men his deficit is 8 points; among women voters, it is a whopping 15 percent In the immortal words of James Carville, it's the economy stupid.
  • (Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog))
  • But the cuts he listed are so minimal and so targeted to the id of the Republican base that not even someone as stupid as Romney thinks voters are would seriously believe he was really talking about debt here: The test is pretty simple.
  • (AlterNet)

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