{"id":29701,"date":"2012-08-19T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29701"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:31:51","slug":"the-democrat-low-information-voter-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29701","title":{"rendered":"The Democrat Low-Information Voter Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"

It started almost as a joke. \u00a0Two years ago, as I watched the Alliance for a Better Minnesota run Governor Dayton’s campaign (let’s be honest) behind a set of memes that a modestly intelligent junior high kid could have shredded, I observed that the Dems seemed to be basing their campaign on winning over “Low-Information Voters” – at its most charitable, people whose entire political worldview is shaped by soundbites, chanting points and slogans.<\/p>\n

But the idea that the Democrats realize that the (let’s be charitable here) not-very-well-informed are the present, if not the future, of the Democrat and DFL parties started to gel earlier this election cycle, as the Dems’ array of chanting-point-bots lined up, one after the other, behind the ideas that…:<\/p>\n