Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Overanalysis

A frustrating thing about primary season is that it seems like 80% of the country's reporters have been assigned to cover the campaign, unnecessarily and with very little for them to actually do. So they overanalyze, trying to construct meaning where often there is very little.

Most voters are relatively low information who don't spend their days tracking politics minute by minute. I don't say that as an insult and I'm not calling them stupid, I just mean that most people aren't political junkies.