2016 Postmortem

but fortunately most are anti-RW. And sadly in the case for some of them, if Obama "wasn't on the ballot", they weren't going to bother (although most wouldn't admit it but have admitted it during off-year elections).

It is a decades long/generational sentiment that goes back to the old euphemism - "They are all just 'the man' (government)", no matter what party.

But it is true that this is how the "non-political junkie" often finds out - via their co-workers or neighbors who ARE junkies. All you need is one or two. But then that just emphasizes the fact that they DO have a "filter" because they are unwilling or unable to find out what is really going on themselves versus going by the "local junkie". And that local junkie manages to penetrate the filter with brief but potent ideological utterances peppered with random soundbite talking points.