Politics for the Rest of us
As we dive headfirst into this election… there’s one thing we all want We want the rest of everybody to see things the way we see them. Now chances are … since you listen to this radio station regularly… you’re pretty dialed into the political process. But a couple of political scientists from Stony Brook University with a long history of polling… say… that if you know all about Hunter Biden’s computer.. or Jared Kushner’s family getting bailed out by an Arab country…. you’re like a unicorn. Yanna Krupnikov and John Ryan report that 15-20 percent of us follow the ins- and outs…. and we have a warped view of what the rest of America should consider important. A Pew study found 10 percent of us… post almost all of the political content on Facebook and Twitter. The rest are posting pictures of their kids... and cats. Here. These professors say before the pandemic they posed people a simple question. What are the most important problems facing the country. Gop political junkies said immigration. Democratic political groupies said “wealthy donors corrupting the process.” But the people of both parties who don’t follow politics… said one of the biggest problems is “low hourly wages.” A bread-and-butter issue. We might be all dialed in. But we’re not exactly tuned in … to what others are thinking. So maybe… as we head toward this election… we shouldn’t be so confident we know all the asnwers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.