On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:18 AM, Mike Beggs wrote:
> One of the key signs of just how alienated politics has become is how
> just about everyone now approaches politics as a pundit - it's not
> just for journalists anymore. Journalists talking to their proverbial
> taxi driver find he reports a conversation at the pub with another
> taxi driver whose wife heard the feeling on talkback was that the
> swing voters of Penrith would find Swan's spin on mortgage rates
> unconvincing. When the self-referentiality of the campaign coverage
> became a bona fide election issue, with the media reporting Twitter
> conversations about how self-referential the campaign coverage was, my
> head just started to hurt. It's horrible.
American politics have taken over the world!
Doug