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• Explaining the Rand Paul Disaster

  “The second point, which gets directly to why Rand Paul is suddenly flailing, is that the local Kentucky media—in particular the newspapers, and especially the flagship Louisville Courier-Journal—has been decimated by job cuts, as has happened across the country. This came up several times in discussions with Kentucky politicos and local journalists. The reason it matters is that because there is no longer a healthy, aggressive press corps—and no David Yepson-type dean of political journalists—candidates don’t run the same kind of gauntlet they once did. They’re not challenged by journalists. And since voters aren’t as well informed as they once were (many are “informed” in the sense of having strongly held views about all manner of things—they’re just not “well informed”), they can’t challenge the candidates either.”

  22 May 2010 / 1 note