Canine Body Language

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1. “…the low-information electorate…”
   When he won in 2008, it was apparently because of Liberal guilt, not that he was perceived by the majority of the electorate as a better prospect than John McCain. He wins even bigger in 2012, one of three American presidents to win two terms with more than 50% of the vote, his second try ending in a resounding electoral college shellacking and an unquestionable popular-vote victory.
   So his first victory comes from a guilty electorate and his second from an ill-informed electorate. We have twenty-four hour TV news of all sorts, we have newspapers, magazines, the internet. We have blogs, campaign speeches, literature, and robocalls… everything except skywriting informing the electorate. We live in what is casually called “The Information Age”. The electorate had four years of information by which to judge him.
   The “low-information electorate” just isn’t flying.