If you’re a registered U.S. voter and regular TMV reader, the chances are quite good that you’re more politically savvy than the overwhelming majority of the rest of the nation’s electorate when they head to the polls.
I’m confident making that claim for three reasons:
(1) I think my co-authors and I do an (ahem) incredible job of covering and opining on political players and developments.
(2) The fact that you’re taking time to read these pages (and probably other pages from other media, old and new alike) means that you’re hungry for knowledge; and knowledge is power; and so on.
(3) It has been my impression (and is increasingly so) that your peers and mine simply don’t care and/or don’t take the time to get informed and get involved.
I further believe we’re all better served by a collectively smarter, more-engaged electorate, and for that reason, I’m a big fan of Project Vote Smart (PVS) and am quite pleased that they’re taking their message to the street, literally.
For those interested, I offer more this morning at Central Sanity about PVS, their “Voter’s Self-Defense System” tour, and what you can do to help.