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What difference would it make? Politicians make promises all the time, and many make good promises too - how many of them actually follow up? Also, how many pe

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Also, how many people rationally think about/analyze their candidates, follow their promises/arguments etc before voting? Most vote along party lines or conservative/liberal labels etc. Arguably, at least in the US, party lines and conservative/liberal labels are more reliable predictors of how candidates will behave in office that campaign promises and arguments are, so may be, as decision criteria, more consistent with rationally thinking about candidates than following promises and arguments.