Low Information Voters vs. No Information Voters

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With all the rumbles created in politicsland over Sharron Angle's "back room deal" attempt with rival Scott Ashjian, there's a little something that's been largely overlooked. Both candidates to take Harry Reid's Senate seat are tea baggers. Well, depending upon who you ask. If you asked Ashjian, he'd claim to be the Tea Party candidate. And he is, says so right next to his name.  But the tea party's big claim to fame is that they have no leadership, and as such, they have splintered into several factions.  There's Tea Party Express, Tea Party Nation, Little Girls Who Love Tea Parties, Pinkies Up!, and on and on.

Hardcore tea baggers are on board with Angle. She's as steeped in tea as can be, and I gotta wonder what kind of leaves she's using. Ashjian on the other hand is despised by a lot of the tea bagging faithful.  I'm really not sure why. Maybe he's not crazy enough? But if Angle is worried that he's going to bungle her shot at the Senate seat, the fact remains that she's only worried about the laziest, most information-challenged tea partiers out there.  They've got to know just enough to get a Pavlovian response to the words "Tea Party" beside Ashjian's name, but not enough to know that the tea party is against him.

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Third-party teabagger's campaign connects with crucial demographic

If somebody gets a tape of one of Sharron Angle's conversations with Goddy McGod, your Gleaner might listen to that. For the cosmology. Meantime, 38 minutes of Angle nattering on with the lesser deity of one Scott Ashjian, well, life's too short. . .

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