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Mainstream America It tickles Granny when TV talkers jaw on about "mainstream America". People who sport $500 sunglasses and traipse around with an entourage shouldn't pretend to identify with regular folks. Let's be clear: TV and radio talkers only need you for "ratings" so they can buy bigger mansions and employ more security guards to keep you out of their sight. Whatever they imagine they know about you is based on their observations from behind the tinted windows of their limousines. You might as well listen to a catfish tell you what it's like to live in a tree as listen to a TV talker tell you what's happening in mainstream America. While the TV and radio talkers like to assume they know what you are thinking, there are actual people called "public opinion experts" who know EXACTLY what you are thinking. How on earth do they manage that? Well, they call you up on the telephone and ask you. They ask thousands of people what they think, then they check back a week, a month, or maybe even a year later to see if folks are still of the same mind.
To fairly and accurately report on "mainstream America" you need to spend time listening to lots of regular folks right where they are. Fact is, TV and radio talkers seldom venture that far out from high value real estate. If they happened to visit you in your natural habitat, they'd throw you popcorn and try to poke you with a stick. When the subject is "mainstream America," I'd take the word of a public opinion expert any day over a TV or radio talker. Let Granny introduce you to a couple:
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