Low information Voters – Granite Grok

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“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.” — Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

The Union Leader on line this morning featured the headline, “Man gunned down on Manchester street was talented graffiti artist.” Now I am curious. A “Graffiti Artist.” As for Graffiti, the Queen city is not lacking in it. According to the Manchester Police Website,

Graffiti is a crime. Graffiti is vandalism! Graffiti is a crime in Manchester! The term graffiti is used if it appears on property without permission. The term originated in the late 1960’s although unsolicited markings have been around forever. Each year, millions of dollars are spent

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These people vote. They decide who the President will be. No, it’s no joke. It’s real.

by Tim Condon

http://youtu.be/3gXOV_XWJck

From Ace of Spades: Unworthy: We’re Losing the Battle of Ideas to a Bunch of Low-Information Snarking Hipsters

by Susan Olsen

After Granite Grok, Ace of Spades is probably my favorite read. I have no idea who ‘Ace’ is – a lawyer, a professor, a soldier, or simply a thoughtful and informed citizen. Like Grok, subjects run the gamut from politics to technology to the occasion movie review but yesterday, Ace wrote a piece about a lengthy article posted At Legal Insurrection by William A. Jacobson, an associate professor at Cornell Law School, Says Ace: ‘Give it a read; I have a thought about this.’ I second the recommendation but suggest you read Ace’s comments first:

My thought about this is that people don’t like thinking very hard, and this goes quintuple for low-information people. The more you do something, the more skilled you get at it, and the more you like it, which in turn impels you to do more of it. (I’m a champ at self-abuse, for example. When there’s a Hall of Fame I’m in on first ballot.)

On the other hand, the less you do of something, the harder it is for you to do it, and the less you wish to do it, which then leads to you becoming, in this context, dumber still.

And one thing that it occurs to me that dumb, low-information people might crave is reassurance for their ego that their dumb, low-information ways are in fact ideal and a perfect response to the world.

GrokTV – Panel Discussion: Making your vote count – Q&A Part 1

by Skip

I have chopped up the videos of the Question and Answer period into different posts (as there were a number of topics on which there were questions). Please note that sometimes the video title “might” not be quite accurate in that often, as these things go, the discussion of the original question quickly morphs to other tangents. But hey, it’s better that way when you are the panelist / audience member than the video editor!):

Quick Riff: Will other Democrats be allowed to use the Obama DB (example: former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe running for VA Guv)
Low information voters and Same Day registrations
Don’t wait for NH Govt to catch Voter Fraud – go “James O’Keefe” and use Right To Know requests to embarrass them to do so.
Same Day registrations in Rye

Use of Obama DB Low Info Voters / Same Day Registrations

The other videos and previous videos from the day after the jump: