My bringing up the Presidential election isn't a perfect example because Obama isn't much of an improvement. My Green party candidate didn't give one much to be enthusiastic over.
I think education helps because people with post-graduate degrees tend to be more progressive than those with just a bachelor's degree. I wonder what's lacking in undergraduate education? Talk radio is dominated by conservatives and in my area liberal talk radio has disappeared. Fox news on cable has a large audience. -- Ron ----- Original Message ----- On 2013-02-03, at 11:08 AM, [email protected] wrote: Older people voted for Romney, so I think that there needs to be a way to give older people a better economics education. -- Ron Steve wrote: <blockquote> Haven't facts and education proven to be mostly ineffective in changing the hearts and minds of the electorate? It seems like your target demographic operates primarily on feeling since that takes way less effort than the alternative. And specifically the feeling that somewhere there a whole lot of undeserving people who are getting a way sweeter deal than they are. </blockquote> Steve Bruns
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