Faster Politics Mickey Kaus

The more I think about this, the more I think it applies. Other's have spoken of "waves" of information that come increasingly faster but none have put it so aptly as Kause and Feiler. Witness Minnesota. The memorial/campaign rally was thought to be a grand coup for the Democrat party but in reality it was an unmitigated disaster. Rather than rest quietly on Wellstone's grave, they danced on it with religious ferver. The average voter was able to see and integrated the unseemliness of it all very quickly and the day after the service the polls showed it. I surmise the effect extended beyoned Minnesota and did so quickly. It would be impossible to prove but intuitively it makes sense.

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