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Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

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Robert Teeter
Age: 65 †
Born: 1939
Born: February 5
Died: 2004
Died: June 14
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Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.
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People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.
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Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
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People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'
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The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.
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Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
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