re: #539 Interesting Times

Are you familiar with the work of George Lakoff? Framing? And did you read the article I linked to on crank voters?

Railing against dumb and/or misinformed voters and demanding they change won’t help Democrats win elections. Like it or not, Democrats have to peel away enough of those voters to win the Electoral College and overcome gerrymandering. All I’m asking is that they consider coming up with a way to reach those reachable voters. If you think that’s unreasonable, you’re pretty much killing the messenger.

There’s this as well:

We’ll never know, but I wonder how Hillary would’ve fared if she emphasized her plan for free college education to help our children get good jobs, instead of focusing solely on Trump’s negatives?