News flash! This just in-- voters not paying attention to primary 'flaps'

[ColesCountyDem]

I'm amazed at the amount of energy people are expending here about 'this Obama flap' or 'that Clinton misstep'! I hate to break it to you guys, but about 80+% of the folks who'll vote in November aren't even paying attention, and won't do so until some time after the convention, if not even later than that. What many are currently hyperventilating about isn't worth the energy you're expending doing so-- trust me.

Might I suggest turning off your computer, mixing yourself a strong drink and, say, taking your dog for a walk? It'll look better in the morning, if you do.

Peace. :)

[ColesCountyDem]

1. Thank you for the rec!

:)

[Tellurian]

2. This just in...Voters sick of Obama's "IT's ABOUT ME!" flap

[Lucky 13]

3. "it's about me"? What are you talking about?

[GarbagemanLB]

4. Wait, are you one of those Hillary Oakley supporters?

[DearAbby]

5. I prefer *** Calamity Hillary....

:D

[bhikkhu]

6. Good Lord! You may be on to something!

That explains why when I show up late, disheveled and wild-eyed for work in the morning after a long night of desperate disaster in the GDP, nobody has any idea what I am talking about!

[ColesCountyDem]

7. That should be your first clue.

:P

[anAustralianobserver]

15. haha You are just trying to lull people into overlooking the all-important Guam caucuses

shame on you!:+

[Frank Booth]

11. Man, I can relate to that. I remember telling people at work I was nervous

the weekend before the Wisconsin primary, and they looked at me like I'm nuts.

[Justitia]

17. OMG - I can't tell you how much I laughed at that, that's me too!

[Justitia]

16. Hilarious! And ouch, I resemble that remark - ROFL.

[Romulox]

8. You do understand that all of this will be repackaged for November, right? nt

[ColesCountyDem]

9. Since I'm neither young, nor politically naive, yes...

This isn't my first goat roping.

[Guaranteed]

10. Personally, I think they're tuning all of this out.

I know I am.


I'm just waiting for the damned convention to be over so we can finally get our nominee and get on with it.

The people arguing around here are just exaggerating partisans. It's a bunch of nonsense.

[Blue State Bandit]

12. Within that 20%, lies the nomination.

And if Hillary don't get every one of those percentage points, it's good night to her.

[nichomachus]

13. Yes and no

They may not be specifically "paying attention," and they may tell you that. But what that means is they're not focusing on it.

However, the "flaps" are seeping into them by osmosis.

In my sister's house, the TV goes on (Fox Noise) when they get up and stays on until they go to bed. The subliminal message is repeated 10,000 times a day. I go to the doctor's office. Same deal -- one of the cable chatter channels, all day. I had jury duty this week -- cable chatter channels in the jury assembly room -- droning the talking points all day. I go into the bar where I buy my lottery tickets (or, as I call it, retirement planning) and all TV sets are tuned to the cable propaganda channels.

So, people are getting this news non-stop. They may not be "paying attention," but the MSM message is getting firmly implanted in their brains. The really scary thing is that they're unaware of the constant propaganda, which means they don't question what they hear or subject it to any critical thought. It just becomes part of their "knowledge."

So I wouldn't be too cheery about this.

[gateley]

18. Excellent observation.

Twenty - however many - years ago, I heard something about Biden on TV. I asked my best friend who/what was the deal. He told me it was some politician who was always stealing other peoples' lines. I don't think I'd even heard his name in the intervening 20 years, and when I began watching the Dem Debates, immediately discounted Biden as a joke. But I became an ardent supporter and he was my choice for President.

That brief little exchange I had with my best friend 20 years ago shaped my "knowledge" of Biden.

[ColesCountyDem]

19. That was when Biden stole Neil Kinnoch's (SP. ?) line...

Neil Kinnoch was running for Prime Minister in the U.K. and had a line in his stump speech that said something like, "Why am I the 1st person in 1000 generations of my family to go to university... blah, blah, blah", and Joe Biden used the line without attribution. It caused a flap, but it wasn't a 'campaign killer'...

[BlueIdaho]

14. Tempest meet teapot. nt.