The Calm Before the Storm: 63% of Voters View the Dems Unfavorably, and This Just Isn’t Sustainable
Scott Pinsker | 10:05 AM on July 26, 2025
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Pinsker Law of PR #83: “Intensity” and “popularity” aren’t the same thing, but if you spend most of your time online, intensity and popularity become utterly indistinguishable.
As such, you miss the forest for the trees.
Most political reporters aren’t pounding the pavement anymore, knocking on doors and buying dinner for on-the-fence sources in seedy dive bars. That era of journalism is deader than the dodo. Nowadays, reporters live, breathe, and work online; their “sources” are the voices, texts, and emails popping up on their phones.
It used to be that appearing within the physical pages of Time Magazine was a huge freaking deal, and if your story “only” appeared on Time.com, it was a disappointment. (Fun fact: So prestigious was the Time Magazine “rub” that one prominent golf resort used to display fake Time covers.) Now, the opposite is true: Nobody reads magazines, but digital is forever.
Today, the online world is king.
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