Reply #7: You should rephrase that.

[ieoeja]

That should read, "I think if you only get your news from Rush, Hannity, Fox News, etc then it's hard not to get it wrong".

This is not always willful ignorance on the part of the audience. In large swathes of this country the local television stations, radio stations, and newspapers cover the entire political spectrum from extreme rightwing to rabid rightwing. Getting another viewpoint takes effort on your part. And when you do catch a non-rightwing report, it sounds so bizarre you doubt its credibility.

And it isn't just the media. It is the local Democratic Party as well. They spent the past couple decades following the DLC strategy, "talk like a Republican and distance yourself from anything liberal". So even the local Democrats have been telling people in Smallville, Iowa that they aren't like all those other Democrats who want to take away your guns.

This is what the 50-State Strategy is intended to correct. Maybe we cannot control the media, but we can at least get Democrats spreading the true national party message instead of letting our opponents just make up shit about us.