All the "I will/won't for vote ..." threads: Which actual Democratic presidential nominee since WWII

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

13. I was far more politically naive back then.

I didn't actually really start paying attention to politics beyond the elections until the late 90s at the earliest.

And, tbh, I think that's something political activists on blogs forget all too often - that the vast majority of people simply don't really pay any attention beyond the elections. They'll hear about Republicans doing something stupid, but if it's more than a few months out, they simply fail to connect up the stupidity with how they vote. So time and again, we get votes for Republicans from people who are hurt by the very policies put forward by the people for whom they vote. Because they just don't connect the dots, and vote almost completely based upon 'how they've always voted', 'how their parents vote', or based solely on the campaign soundbites, which completely distort reality.