The Low Road Express

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Deckard

Also, if the polls are to be believed, I wonder if it goes back to something Cacophony said, about the public largely feeling rather than thinking. After all, Obama is about as far removed from Aw, Shucks as it's possible to be.

Oh I wouldn't doubt it at all. Most people don't seem too interested in being informed, instead just accepting whatever rhetoric they happen to hear in the nightly news.

That's actually exposed a confusing and glaring contradiction to me, too. You keep hearing the assertion that "Obama is relatively unknown to voters" compared to McCain and other politicians, but the fact is, the majority of voters don't know crap about either because they don't bother to get themselves informed! Yeah Obama's unknown, but so is everyone else!