![]() ![]() ![]() The coverage seemed so focused on the candidates and their campaigns and on the race between them that the concerns and attitudes of ordinary voters tended to get overlooked. ![]() It was mid-October, and I had decided to make the trip out of my own frustrations with the press. “How many of you are tired of people running down the country?” For the last six years, he declared, the “drive-by media”-his term for the mainstream press-has tried to convince people “that this is a rotten country.” States like Ohio, he went on, were so foreign to elite journalists that they needed a visa to visit them.Īs it happened, I was on my way to Ohio to interview people about their political views. “How many Joe the Plumbers are there out there in Middle America?” Rush Limbaugh fumed on my car radio as I drove down Interstate 75 from the Detroit airport toward Toledo.
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