Larry Sabato is the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, and in his expert opinion, “The [news] cycle demands new information and interesting wrinkles about presidential candidates.”
On ABC News, Sabato went on to say that campaigns recognize that voters get bored by policy and are trying to connect with them.
“Everyone can relate to a candidate who doesn’t pick up his socks, he said. “It is irrelevant information but people do like to have an insight into who this person is.”
Are you listening, candidates? Does that Geek Survey look any more relevant in light of a scholarly opinion?
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Voter Boredom: 1 Geeks: 0
Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
