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Not at all surprising. Sad, but not surprising. How many voters know who the Secretary of State is? How many voters know who their local congress critter is? I
by jiveturkey 7y ago
Not at all surprising. Sad, but not surprising.
How many voters know who the Secretary of State is? How many voters know who their local congress critter is? I guarantee the numbers are similarly dismal.
- jandrese 7y agoIt's pretty typical for the kind of answers you get from polling people walking around the mall in the middle of a weekday.
- jiveturkey 7y agoaka voters
- ergothus 7y agoI actually regularly forget my local Reps - because every time I check in they've been voting the way I want, so I have very little reason to think about them. I generally know about them for a few weeks before elections and rapidly forget after that. (with the occasional hot button issue making me check in on them, but then my memory lasts only for an hour or so) I used to feel a lot of guilt about this, but eventually I decided that's the whole point of a representative democracy. Depending on people to be aware and informed on all the issues is extremely likely to fail. Whatever system of govt we want to strive for, it has to build on that reality.