How those in politics misunderstand the way the public views politics
I’ve always been a bit envious of Jonathan Calder’s Four Laws of Politics, so I’m going to label a tweet from today as The Basic Mistake of Politics:
It's a basic rule of politics: voters notice less but remember it for longer than politicos think.
Which is why those deep into politics get it wrong both when obsessing about small stuff and also when thinking issues are no longer relevant and lost in the past. https://t.co/Ixv6BMQlgr
— Mark Pack 🔶 (@markpack) April 28, 2020
The point about voters noticing less than many realise is a version of the women’s hockey point.
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