[Peace-discuss] Pointless primary

[C. G. Estabrook]

Looking down on the electorate for being "ill-informed," in the present 
media regime, is a case of blaming the victim.  Half of the eligible 
voters in NH were well-enough informed to know that the primary was a 
show for the media and celebrities and had nothing to do with them, and 
so didn't bother to vote.

In the 2004 election, a majority of Bush voters thought that Bush 
supported the Kyoto treaty (he didn't), because the treaty was 
reasonable and Bush had been marketed as a reasonable man... --CGE

Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> Ah yes, another example of our ill-informed electorate. And folks on 
> this very list were arguing some months back w/ posts describing joe 
> sixpack in those terms??
>  --Jenifer
> 
> */"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>/* wrote:
> 
>     More evidence that the issues have been carefully removed from the
>     presidential campaign, really now no more than a high-school popularity
>     contest. --CGE
> 
>     NH Voters Thought McCain Opposed the Iraq War?
>     Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 in News by James Bovard
> 
>     CNN crunched the exit poll data from yesterday’s New Hampshire primary
>     and found that “among the 34 percent [of Republican primary voters] who
>     said they disapproved of the war, McCain had a wide advantage over the
>     GOP field — even over Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the sole advocate of a U.S.
>     withdrawal in the Republican field.” (hat tip to Think Progress).
> 
>     Perhaps such voters did not realize the temporal difference between
>     exiting Iraq ”now” (in Ron Paul’s case) versus 10,000 years from now
>     (in
>     McCain’s case, according to his comment on CBS’s Face the Nation
>     last week).
> 
>     McCain has rarely missed a chance to grovel at Bush’s feet to support
>     the Iraq war...
> 
>     http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/09/nh-voters-thought-mccain-opposed-the-iraq-war/
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