2006-09-05 07:55:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
B/c ppl are generally more shallow than we give them credit for being. Some actually think (or believe) voters will know, or at least be familiar with, the issues and the candidates stand on an issue. Oh no, nay rue na! Ppl like to fool us! Besides, who you gonna vote for? A guy who got him a bitchen' haircut or the old fart? lol !!
2006-09-05 08:02:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that everybody runs out and buys the latest dieting breakthrough.
Trim Spa, Fat Blocker, Hollywood Diet, Zone Diet, Atkins Diet.
If you see it on TV it must be true.
If you can benefit from a thirty second blip, rather than have to devote the actual time an effort, that's what a good portion of us will choose to do.
Look, I'm just happy that there aren't more people listening to the gospel according to Limbaugh, understanding his entertainment as truth laden fact, and acting accordingly!
Campaign reform is the only way out of this hole!
2006-09-05 15:09:44 · answer #2 · answered by niffer's mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think because people are too lazy to research the candidates for themselves. They don't know anything about the them other than what they see on tv or hear on the radio or read in political ads. So if you run for office you have to advertise.
2006-09-05 15:01:35 · answer #3 · answered by JENNIFER W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you just notice this??
Anyway this is the pattern that the Planet Earth has followed for a few thousand years.
Arnie spent $26M getting elected to governor.
Bill Frisk spent $14M to become a Senator.
You can do this too Just take a few hundred million out of your bank account and you will be president in 2008.
Go big Red
2006-09-05 15:10:53 · answer #4 · answered by 43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One thing you have to remember about people, especially people today. They are incredibly stupid and uneducated. They are responding just like Pavlov's dogs without a intelligent, critical thought in their had.
2006-09-05 15:02:24 · answer #5 · answered by Poppies_rule 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think that you vote actually means anything?
2006-09-05 18:25:52 · answer #6 · answered by GJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the shiny box with pictures tells them to.
2006-09-05 15:05:40 · answer #7 · answered by one voice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that is easier than thinking for themselves and actually researching the issues. It is sad.
2006-09-05 14:59:56 · answer #8 · answered by Leah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
b/c it's the candidate most familiar to them visibly and cognitively.
2006-09-05 14:59:10 · answer #9 · answered by loretta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause that person is most "burned" into the minds that they are good.
2006-09-05 14:58:35 · answer #10 · answered by psxfff123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋