Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : As my colleague Antonia Hitchens reported, his campaign was boosted by a traditional get-out-the-vote ground effort late in the game -- despite this apparently not being a priority for Trump -- but the canvassing was less about delivering policy information than about tuning voters' ears like satellites to the national signal.
48% : The pollster and political-marketing-language consultant Frank Luntz assembled a focus group of men who had previously voted for a Democratic nominee but were voting for Trump this year.
32% : Trump seemed to think that much of the voting public couldn't be bothered with details -- couldn't be bothered to fact-check, or deal with fact checkers.
32% : Trump has maximized his influence over networks that people rub against, and has filled them with information that, true or not, seems all of a coherent piece.

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