In the movie "Orange County", the teacher asks what name comes to mind when he says "Romeo and Juliet". One of the kids, from a school sending all the kids to greta schools, says Leonardo DiCaprio and the teacher says "Right".
Its a comedy. Fifteen years earlier I had a girlfriend who was going back to school to be an actress. She was looking for an English Class and I tols her I found a Shakespeare class she could get in. She looked at me with absolute seriousness and said, "Shakespeare? Why would I take that? I want to be an actress".
Little clues along the way.

The correct term should actually be No Information Voters - the kind the MSM and the teachers´ unions need to create to produce enough Obama supporters.

At least one of the LIVs thinks billons and trillions are the same thing. ( Recent Lucianne post)

Actually #1, it´s much worse than low-info or no-info, it´s mis-info aka proganda. These morons think they´re informed because they are uptodate on what the left wants them to believe.

Bread and circuses. Phones and Cable Krap.

Obama´s a pop star. His career trajectory should end with a season on Celebrity Apprentice. Unfortunately for us the Democrats´ incursion into low info pop media is entirely cynical, worthwhile only as a means to an end. The truth is they have little regard for the women that watch those shows and feel no obligation to be straight with them. Tell them whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. It´s Bush´s fault. Romney´s going to take way your right to make other people buy your birth control pills. Republicans think rape is no big deal, they hate gay people, puppies, and rainbows. Math is hard so we´ll fix everything by taking more from evil rich people.

It is a mistake to stereotype LIV´s as readers of US or People. Many LIVs are dedicated readers of NYT and WaPo and consumers of CNN and MSNBC and they consider themselves well informed.

It is a mistake to stereotype LIV´s as readers of US and People. Many LIV´s are dedicated readers of NYT and WaPo and they consider themselves well informed.

And the moronically soft stance on immigration that so many republicans are now taking will be the final nail in our coffin. Getting 10-20 million more LIVs on the voting rolls will sink us forever. Think of a rally big California.

Probably I´m about the last person in the country without a cell phone - by choice. I´ve never had a problem with pulling into a filling station and using one if I really wanted to make a call although the numbers of pay phones have been declining for years.

Last week I tried that and found that the pay phones had been removed. Drove by three places with no luck. The familiar hooded stand where once had been a phone was still in place at one of them, but no phone.

I would agree that the Democrats and the POTUS know their voters, making cell phones an entitlement. The anti-business thing works a lot of way, giving away what people once purchased. Maybe the crime rate will go down though - no need to steal a cell phone, right?

#7
That’s so true. I have a friend who is educated to a pointed head…and he repeatedly says that ‘by reading the NYT and the WSJ you will know everything you need to know about the world today."

Re #8 - So does the Republican Party dumb down its message bilingually?

Unlike many of the talking heads out there, I don´t give much credit to the American people; it´s not just a matter of the Republicans/Conservatives getting their message out. It´s a matter that the Republican/Conservative brand has been so damaged that the LIVs jost will not listen.

Keep them stupid and unarmed: Stalin, Mao, Hitler, KKK, Obama

Stalin, Mao, Hitler, KKK, Obama

I missed Hitler by a couple of yrs but the rest are/were running on ´Progressive´ ideas.

Winners write the History...........

oh boy, #1. that really hit home. I was a broadway actor, tony nominee, did a lot of shakespeare and nothing teaches you to act better than learning shakespeare, my dad wrote a book about acting shakespeare and when I hear that kind of thing, what your ex-girfriend said...well, i am usually pretty good at putting into words but...I don´t know. your ex has the right to vote just as you and I do. maybe democracy is not such a great idea after all.

Obama is a low-information President. A perfect match.

You know, thus us sad, just having come off a great CPAC weekend. Lots of solutions, empathy, truth, humor and TRUTH coming from there.
Too bad, C-SPAN was the only one covering it. We didn´t get to see all of it live, but when watching the replays, the snarky C-SPAN announcer (female snarker) said Palin called zippy a liar thereby putting that into the viewer´s mind. Just ignore any truths spoken - it really irritated me!
Why are talking points related to the conservative message not front and center on every news show, cable and MSM? What is wrong with having an IO campaign that works? Wake up, RNC!

#7, my wife is very successful business woman, has a genius IQ and voted for Obama twice.
She gets her information from the NYT, the Oregonian newspaper and OPB.
I´m a Conservative and she´s a Liberal.

During the Clinton years, we actually went to marriage counseling over our politics.

I´m with poster #2.... NO information voters is more like it...

The good thing about the NO information voter is -- he/she has a very short attention span -- so WE information savvy voters will eventually win the day.....

LZK

FTA: "While the earnest Republicans were naively running political ads during campaigns, Democrats were running a continuous campaign through movies, television, news organizations, and entertainment media".

The article points out exactly what Andrew Breitbart was trying to tell us. Andrew said that we had to get serious about grabbing the attention of potential voters through popular culture venues.

However, that seems to be such a daunting endeavor. Aggressively entering the entertainment and social networking areas poses a communication dilemma. LIVs don´t want to hear about God, family values, education, loyalty, patriotism, or honor. They sneer and snicker when people like Senator Rubio talk about working tirelessly as a way to lift themselves up from hardship. They know that they don´t have to work hard - they know that the government will provide for them everything that they need. They have abandoned the principles of self-respect and self-reliance for sloth and selfishness. They mindlessly sit in front of their TVs where they are stream-fed drivel about the Kardashians and Beyonce rather than information about Karzai and Benghazi.

There has to be a way to reach them - a way to awaken their defeated spirits - a way to make them want to soar - but what is it?

Unfortunately, Im scared to death what it will take to wake up the LIV. As much as I hope it will happen, I think it´s going to be monumental and devastating to our country, we are that far entrenched in the muck.

Some US citizens actually take pride in staying out of the fray: I urged a younger male friend, now aged 42 to get involved years ago during the Clinton years and he simply responded, "Nope. I´m blissfully ignorant".

More recently I urged a child-era friend, who probably defaults to liberal-minded(he thinks the U.S. gov did 9/11/01 and Michael Moore is great), to get out and vote against Obama for 2012, lest the country eventually become communist. His response: "Call someone who cares". Recently I spoke with him and he said, "I haven´t been working much lately". Go figure. Some are slow to learn, oh but learn they will.

Anyone who gives intuitive advice to people who are heading for a calamity, only to see them ignore the advice and suffer the consequences, probably realize like I do that some events in life simply cannot be stopped. It adds more validity to the concept of destiny: Try to stop it and it happens anyway.

Is it too early for a glass of Victory gin??

#17...Please have your wife google "Larry Sinclair", "Obama´s law licenses" and "Bill Clinton Blood Sales". This will save your marriage.

A friend of mine had granddaughters living in California. When he visited one of their classes he was asked where he lived. He said, ´just outside Washington, D.C.´ The teacher tried to find D.C. on the map and was unable to do so. We´re defenseless. Idiots train idiots.

While Obama gets his big time coverage from the so-called Pop Media free by appearing on their numerous shows, the Republicans have to pay that media big bucks to get their political ads shown at all, without doing that most of the American people would have no idea who the Republican candidate is other then by way of the liberal Democrats calling him a felon and a tax evader who does not care about them.

You´re missing the all-important 2nd part - getting the LIV to the polls! Ideally, more than once. The dems are throwing all of their cards into making sure as many LIV´s vote, and as many times, as possible. Stop this and you stop the dems.

We have a daughter who graduated from one of the Cal state universities, lives in Marin county, reads the NYT headlines app and has an important job at a well known and well respected corporation. She drives a green Prius with a sticker on the rear bumper that says "Yes We Did!".

While visiting us in Washington state last summer she inquired if George Washington once lived just up the road from us in the town of Mt. Vernon.

I actually had to tell her that there was another Mt. Vernon....back east somewhere.

My husband and I both work with LIV´s and our neighbors are all LIV´s (democrats, although they´re supposedly well-educated college graduates). I work as a nurse at a long term care facility and on election night, some young aides were gathered in the break-room watching the returns on TV. My nurse coworker who is a Christian and conservative walked into the room just as 0bama was being announced the winner and the aides were all excited and cheering. As my coworker came into the room, expressionless and inwardly devastated, the aides looked at her like she had 2 heads, not comprehending why she wasn´t rejoicing. They all have smartphones they´re constantly checking and they know all about pop culture, but they, like so many, know nothing about the biased MSM or new media found on the internet.

I don´t want to base reality on my own experiences, but it´s hard not to believe that we´re doomed by the dumbing down in our schools over the years and the lack of critical thinking as a result.

It´s a strategic mistake to lump all those who voted for Obama as merely low information voters.
Many are, but , many are completely informed
about the issues and
they just don´t see them the way we do.
Some are also completely up to date on the issues
and just don´t care.
Calling these voters silly names like lofos as Limbaugh does just reinforces that Republicans
are mean spirited.
Insulting voters who don´t agree with your positions
does nothing to bring them to your side.
There is a growing swath of Americans
that will automatically respond negatively
to any issue that Republicans and the right wing promotes.
They refuse to listen to the message
because of the messenger.
This learned response has been honed over the last 20 years.
The issues that matter to them are also not the ones
that matter most to Republicans.
Republicans and conservatives are going to go the way of the buggy whip
if they continue to assume voters
will respond to their message
if they just shout it more loudly.
Cowbelling as Jonah Goldberg coined it.
Republicans have to pivot , modernize and figure
out a way to reach voters
from the conservative viewpoint
without alienating them with insults.

I was in charge of a hotel conference over ten years ago where the conference next door was of pay phone owners and operators. At the break, the pay phone owners flooded the lobby where they made calls on their cell phones. Most of the pay phones in the nearby alcove were unused.

#15 -- Love that observation. Right up there with another post a I saw a week or so ago at L.com about Obama on the White House Tours. The poster wryly quipped: Obama bin Lyin´

Now, Obama is the LIV in Chief.

Well, if this is true, GOP candidates had better start schmoozing the Pimp with the Limp now so he´ll endorse them in three years.

Criticizing/poking fun at the LIVs is futile and suicidal for a democratic republic. To save the Constitution, they must be educated - or at least made aware of what´s going on. Treat it like the war that it is: make it happen with the situation as it is on the ground. That is the job of the party. If the party can´t or won´t do it, then it calls for a new party.

(Hint: A government shutdown for a few weeks would get their attention. The "trick" is how to manage it. Treat it as a warning of what will happen permanently if we don´t get this debt under control.)

Yes, LIV´s voted for obama, but I´m in the camp that he won by voter fraud in the battleground states.

"Most of an LIV´s knowledge of economics, politics, and history comes from watching movies, television shows, The Daily Show, and stuff that one of his leftist friends posts on Facebook".

And from lapping up everything they hear or thought they heard from the msm without questioning..one...single....thing they heard.