> Even if you are an unusually well-informed voter, the enormous size, scope, and complexity of modern government ensure that there will be many issues and cand

> Even if you are an unusually well-informed voter, the enormous size, scope, and complexity of modern government ensure that there will be many issues and candidates about which you know very little…. This argument can be used ad infinitum. There cannot be such a thing as perfectly informed about anything that has subjective components, so this doesn't sway me. I find a corollary of this much more interesting: in elections for office -- as opposed to referenda -- I find that the amount of information I need to make a binary choice is often trivial. I absolutely cannot understand why there are so many millions of people out there who have such a hard time making up their mind on these things. Moreover, we have the gift of information about candidates at our fingertips. Maybe others see subtleties where I see rather stark contrasts, but I doubt it. I think it's all just political news reporting-generated false churn.