How stupid is the American electorate?

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People just want things to get done. If they don't think the party in power is doing it, they will vote them out. And before anyone jumps in and says more laws were passed by this congress than ever before, I would say that that is irrelevant to voters. If you can't show them how you benefit them, or the country, you are done. You can cut taxes for voters, but if you don't talk about it every second, or send them a check with the money, they won't know. It may be great public policy to just add it to your paycheck, but good public policy without good politics loses at the polls.

Does that make Americans stupid? Maybe, but it's not as if their stupidity has a partisan leaning. It was the Democrats who were stupid not to slap the voters across the face with a list of their achievements/ tell them what they have done specifically for them (btw, is this an elitist thing to say, Vepres?). I very rarely heard Democrats mention that now you can't be denied health coverage for pre-existing conditions or that your children can stay on your insurance till you are 26. Those are popular things, but the Democrats never sold it. Actually the Tom Periello race shows you that people like it when you stand up for your convictions. If every Democrat had done that, especially those in more Democratic districts in the Midwest, there might be more of them on capitol hill right now.