tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37313627.post3941990942456696492..comments2023-10-17T06:42:54.841-07:00Comments on Put me in Coach!: Non-rugby political rantJust call me coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13100926178851383406noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37313627.post-30107011062872818912008-02-15T09:46:00.000-08:002008-02-15T09:46:00.000-08:00Is it a bad thing for poor people and less educate...<I>Is it a bad thing for poor people and less educated people to pick you? </I><BR/><BR/>It's bad when they're voting for an ideology and against their own interests. Not b/c they're stupid, b/c you don't need to be educated to vote intelligently, but rather <I>informed</I>. When you're poor, you usually don't have the time or money to access a variety of information and inform yourself. You get only a little from the most available source, the TV or maybe the radio. And when is the last time you were impressed with the accuracy and depth of coverage on the TV news? Soundbites are misleading b/c of the shallow information and ready lending towards bias, and in a culture where political knowledge is disseminated through them, it is disturbingly easy to vote for someone with positions completely opposite what would actually benefit your life in this country. B/c you don't know! <BR/><BR/>I think that's more of a story than the obsessive demographic polling that purports to tell us that poor/uneducated/blue-collar/whatever are voting for candidate X. What would improve the lives of this demographic, and are candidate X's positions in agreement with those needs? If they aren't (and many times they're not), then what you have is an information gap, which to me means that media is picking on a group that they failed to properly inform in the first place.Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02529595734767616715noreply@blogger.com