Why Don't Americans Care? - Mark Morford

[Clinton Crusader]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/10/06/notes100604.DTL&nl=fix

Let's be honest. Percentage-wise, few people in America really give much of a crap about what's going on in the hallowed halls of politics and power.

This is what we in the media and maybe you in the media-consuming audience tend to forget far too easily: This country is simply jam-packed with millions of people who have no time for, or interest in, politics, or media, or environmental policy, or education, or global issues, or which presidential candidate lied his ass off about which aspect of his military career and which Orange Alert is totally bogus and how many soldiers are dying for what imbecilic war.

It seems hard to believe. But the general rule of thumb is that major cities are slightly more attuned due to aggressive media saturation and how issues tend to make themselves known more urgently, more immediately, whereas Middle America is a scattershot conglomeration of the politically apathetic and the actively disenfranchised, full of people far too busy with their lives and kids and jobs and zoning out on "Fear Factor" and "Monday Night Football" to care about following the elitist, ever dire dramas playing out on the nation's gilded stages.
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[Doctor_J]

1. he has been deadly accurate over the last few weeks

at least he agrees with me ;-). He recently talked about Kerry's main problem being that he's not Clinton, that a narrow win for JFK next month probably won't do that much (i. e. that the neocon onslaught has to be allwoed to crash on its own inertia, so that people can see the end result of malignant policies).