People voting against their own interests

[SheilaT]

7. Very interesting point.

It is a vanishingly small percentage of people who don't watch commercial TV. I happen to be one of them, and it's very interesting to be so cut off from all the advertizing. It's important to note that I watch plenty of shows that start out on commercial TV, it's just that I watch them on the internet with little or no advertizing.

What I am almost totally insulated from is the political ads that happen in an election year. So I simply don't have that source of "information" to help me decide whom to vote for.

I also miss out on such things as the wall-to-wall coverage that occurs when, say, a Michael Jackson dies. I actually didn't realize that had happened (the coverage, not his death) until about three months after he died. I also miss out on most things that so many others obsess about. I would never have known about the whole Ann Romney and the Stay At Home Mothers thing were it not for DU. And, quite frankly, I'd have been better off not even knowing about that silliness.

Advertizing really is effective.