Myth- Politicians need a lot of endorsements to get votes?

Myth- Politicians need a lot of endorsements to get votes?

Yeah endorsements are a kind of insider politics kind of a thing. You're average voter doesn't care about most of the endorsements, they look at that as a level of politics that's generally beyond them, or not so much it's over their heads but their just not interested in. A lot of times they view it as just natural, when you have Al Gore, for instance, endorsing Howard Dean over John Kerry, people in the Democratic Party and other talking heads were like, “Oh my God! This is amazing”. But most of your average Democratic Primary voter, or your average voter, it doesn't matter to him – he's just going to vote for who he cares about, not who Al Gore cares about. We see this in terms of James Upson and Pat Robinson who and are leading figures in the Religious Right. They have strong reservations about John McCain and Rudy Julianne but you saw significant numbers of white voters for John McCain and Rudy Julianne. Voters can make up their own minds; there not mob mentally people who follow step with who ever the latest civic miser is. If somebody says something, they take that into account and they give it a certain weight in their calculations, but it doesn't determine anything.