Fear and Marketing Seize the Day

The fickleness of the voter knows no bounds.
As Winston Churchill said  "the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter".

Click on the title  and you may get frightened for America.  If only they realized that the founding fathers were a bunch of aristocrats, gentleman farmers, intellectual elitists, and pro slavery plantation owners, the exact caste the Tea Party rallies against. These great thinkers came up with the electoral college to very specifically guard against populist victories, and their worries ring true 225 years later.