Source: Katharine Q. Seelye, "How to Sell a Candidate to a
> Porsche-Driving, Leno-Loving Nascar Fan,"
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/politics/06strategy.html>,
> December 6, 2004
> --
Interesting. It validates an observation HL Mencken made some 80 years ago on the pages of the Baltimore Evening Sun:
"when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotions, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost."
That old Baltimore curmudgeon was right on the target - presidential elections are yet another genre of silly pageants where blondes with big tits and tough talking guys always win.
Wojtek