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Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin
Do you really think this little of the average voter?
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It was primarily a joke in this thread, but . . .
I think sometimes people are willing to assume that the people who support the other person are idiots.
And, yeah, I'm sometimes afraid that it runs backwards too and that a perception that idiots support a candidate affects the perception of the candidate.
I'm not sure how much the average voter really considers issues as opposed to voting on self-perception and perception of candidates. If this weren't the case, why do we get crappy news stories about the music candidates listen to? There's an attempt to show superficially what kind of person the candidate is, and apparently we're supposed to care.
Not that the average voter is incapable of weighing issues, but just that sometimes people don't bother.
ETA: I realize there's a distinction between elements that a candidate chooses for himself or herself and the idiots who latch on, but I'm not sure that candidates aren't kind of held responsible for their supporters, even when the supporters aren't serving in an officially endorsed view.
EATA: If you were "branding" a candidate, would you want Earp in the picture? Just saying.
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