A Wisconsin voter and former supporter of Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold recently stated that she won't vote for the senator in the upcoming mid-term elections because Feingold supported the federal bailout of Wall Street. When she was informed that Feingold actually voted against the bailout, she responded, "Well, I'm still not voting for him. He spends too much."
With my experience of knowing human beings I would be hard-pressed to think of this as an isolated situation. I think that this encounter exposes the pandemic of many Americans casting their vote despite the ever-nagging presence of facts.
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