Are most Americans savvy voters?

[el_bryanto]

By savvy I mean intelligent and well informed, able to make good voting decisions.

Obviously, the media plays a big roll in why they might not be well informed; and I though on how to factor that in, but couldn't think of a clean way to do it. But that's another question - would they be savvy voters if we had a better media landscape?

Bryant

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[onehandle]

1. LOL!

Most Americans aren't savvy Americans.

[Iggo]

2. They're not even savvy humans.

[el_bryanto]

4. In what ways are they not savvy humans? nt

[Iggo]

5. In the same way that hyperbole is even more hilarious when it's taken seriously.

[HappyMe]

3. Oh hell no.

[customerserviceguy]

6. I'm going to use a broad definition of savvy

I'd say that about 40% of the voters know they're going to vote Democratic in every general election, and about 40% know they're going to vote GOP each time. That makes 80% who know what they want, and in my definition, savvy.

What's crazy is the 20% in the mushy middle who make up their minds the weekend before an election, and are so clueless that they really think that it's a coin toss as to which party they elect. Those are the folks who make elections go from one party to another, and they're usually motivated by which party/candidate scares them the least.

[dmosh42]

7. Most of my past and present acquaintences seemed to be one-issue voters, which is enough to draw...

them to the voting booth. Some of them are 'faiith' believers who depend on some clerics to steer them. Naturally they are always Republicans and totally dumb about how government works.

[raven mad]

19. The "one issue" thing is my definition of not savvy at all.

I like my guns. They keep meat in my freezer that isn't chemically treated. I'm pro-choice and very, very feminist, etc. I'm not Christian or any other organized religion. I am, however, a definite believer in "something" out there way smarter than me! I cannot, and probably won't ever be able, to understand "one issue" voters!

And I haven't missed a vote since 1972, when I was old enough to register!

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. In 2012, there were 240 million adults in the US

129 million voted for president. I believe significantly over 10 million of those are not 'savvy', so, no.

[Puzzledtraveller]

9. I still see it as largely a popularity contest.

When recently asking a client if they were registered to vote(state law requires we ask) they asked; "what party is Obama?"

[NuclearDem]

16. Yep. Personality over policy is stupid.

Which is why the primaries should frankly be held after the general.

[KamaAina]

10. Are repukes winning elections?

In a lot of places, they are -- enough to keep the Speaker's gavel in Boner's orange hands.

So no.

[CK_John]

11. Repug will always vote Repub they have a long trail back to the Tory's.

[JoePhilly]

12. Most Americans aren't following politics very closely.

And the media works to keep the elections close. No horse race, no viewers.

[el_bryanto]

13. Self-indulgent kick nt

[melm00se]

14. I'd hazard a guess and say

that most voters, regardless of country, aren't really savvy voters.

[sakabatou]

15. Nope

[Brigid]

17. Hell no. We have a government that can't get a damned thing done.

Nothing works anymore. Idiocracy rules.

[Le Taz Hot]

18. Good goddess, no.

And therein lies the problem. And of course, I must add, blind loyalty to a political party has consequences just as bad.

[Blue_Tires]

20. Nope, most are single issue voters...

But the SYSTEM is to blame, since it is so heavily slanted towards two parties, each one trying to be all things to all people...

When the process is dumbed down, the electorate gets dumbed down as a result...