Consultant, UND alum: Voters yearn for more info
October 11, 2012 at 4:30 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Voters are hungry for deeper information about the election that goes beyond sound bites and attack ads, as was shown by interest in last week’s debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney, said political consultant Pfeifle during a lecture in the Grand Forks Herald Community Room on Wednesday. Continue Reading
Did anyone ask him why in the world he was the senior advisor to the Herman Cain campaign? Did he need a job that badly that he would agree to go out and defend Cain’s 999 economic plan? It also seems strange to schedule a talk about the 2012 election during the only debate the vice presidential candidates would have. Didn’t they think that people would want to stay home and watch that instead of going to see some 8th tier functionary in the Bush administration?
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Hi realist, so what does it say about you that you’re commenting on a post about an 8th tier political guy?
peace out.
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He is 100% correct that people are starved for information. Unfortunately, nothing in this political silly season is giving any. The conventions are simply week long info-mercials. All decisions were made long before the gavel fell. They have no practicle meaning in the 21 century. In other words, Abe Lincoln would never get nominated.
The debates are also staged and tightly controlled. The questions are known ahead of time. Again, nothing more than a crafted info-mercial.
Wouldn’t it be great to have a debate where both sides showed up cold and either side could win or have their political career ended in one night? In other words a real debate where the answered mattered and consisted of more than talking points.
I blame the 24 hour news cycle. It drives the media and therefore politics.
Good or bad. It is what we have instead of serious discussion of the topics
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absolutely. The question no one in media or the voters are asking is How. The lack of details by candidates is breathtaking exceeded only by the lack of fact checking of advertising. All one hears is innuendo, half truths, and outright lies from the candidates and their attack PACs. I did hear that one group is pushing for fact checks during the debates and the only entity that was streaming live time tweeting is CNN. The transcript of the debate last night showed over 60% of the statements made by both candidates were partially or completely false.
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