re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

I still can’t figure how out how Rick Scott got his ass re-elected. Then again, I can’t figure out how Scott Walker and Sam Brownback got re-elected either.

It all depends on whether your mental model of the voting public is a good fit for reality. Back when, this Washington or NY socialite was quoted as exclaiming, on Reagan’s reelection, that “He can’t have won. Nobody I know voted for him.”

Each of us runs in circles that are skewed from the overall average. We cannot easily shake the sense that our own circle is normal. Still less can we shake the sense that our own circle, however different it is from the rest, is right.