More evidence for my claim that the main value of politics to ordinary people is as a spectator sport:
The Monkey Cage writes:
the actual audience for news wants to hear more about strategy. Why? Probably because they already know what candidate or, in this case, policy they favor — at least in broad terms (e.g., yea or nay on health care reform) — and so they want to know whether their preferred policy is “winning.” That’s what strategy coverage provides them.
via TGGP
(By the way, I’ve been quiet lately because I’m working on something that will revolutionalise the state of the art of zombie population modelling).