Our uninformed electorate

Thoughts from the Carpetbagger on the competence of the american voter.

This has been a pet issue of mine since undergrad, so forgive me for the lengthy post here, but I strongly believe that an uninformed electorate creates a dysfunctional democracy. As Digby put it, "We simply cannot adequately govern ourselves if a large number of us are dumb as posts and vote for reasons that make no sense."

Read the post (and the comments too.)