No, not that 1%, not the richest 1%. I’m talking about the 1% who are going the decide this election: the truly undecided voters in the six or seven battleground states. Say 7% of people in states with 15% of the electoral votes are honestly undecided. That’s about 1% of American voters. And those are the people who are going to decide this election. And both campaigns know it, so whatever they are doing is aimed at convincing those voters to vote for them,
Some of that 1% are probably suburban women. Others may be working class minority men. Whoever they are, these are the people the campaigns, both of them, are targeting. The rest of us don’t really matter. So whenever you see one of the campaigns do something that seems silly or off-putting to you, consider how it might look to somebody in that 1%. Because those people are the targets of those actions or statements – and those are the people who are going to decide this election.
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