re: #16 DaddyG

At some point the market gets saturated and voters tire of the campaigns. Robo-calls and sign pollution are two examples of things that turn off voters to a candidate.

What I’m afraid of is that after a certain point people will just tire of the process and tune out. Which in its own perverse way can be a political tool.

Implicit in that assessment is that political spending is all campaigning in the traditional sense. Lobbying, contributions to “think tanks” and other proxy groups, etc., is every bit as effective, if not more so, and doesn’t appear to the average Joe to be political in nature.

Think of all the bad climate science out there, the misinformation regarding the Cordoba house, the push to teach “Intelligent Design” in public schools, etc. Look at all the websites out there that have the sole purpose of pushing propaganda from a specific perspective, yet don’t bear the visible fingerprints of political campaigning.

Actual political ads are just a small part of the overall political propaganda model.