Most Voters Already Know
What They Need to Know

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From Jonathan Bernstein at BloombergView:

We have a strong if mistaken assumption that voters should be experts on political candidates, at least when it comes to those running for president. How does this assumption affect the reaction to Hillary Clinton’s health issue, for example, or to new revelations about Donald Trump’s business practices? Or, for that matter, to our understanding of the policies the candidates articulate?

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2 thoughts on “Most Voters Already Know
What They Need to Know”

  1. Bovine Excrement! If most voters knew what they truly needed to know then we would not have either Trump nor Hillary as our two major party candidates for the presidency.

    Most damned voters don’t even know that we are a representative republic instead of a democracy, let alone that most of what both parties have made into “law” for decades is either extra-constitutional or flat out un-constitutional. Oh well, as long as we know who to vote for on America’s Got Talent or Dancing With the Stars, right?

  2. I would amend that to say “Most voters already THINK they know what they need to know.

    Still, most voters probably know our choices are pathetic.

    TP,

    I’m with you.

    I would suggest the US is neither a democracy nor a representative republic. It is a non-democratic, not representative, neo-liberal, militarist corporatist state. If anyone can tell me who is represented half as much as the military and corporate interests, I will re-consider that impression.

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