The Impossibility of an Informed Electorate - D.W. MacKenzie - Mises Daily

The Impossibility of an Informed Electorate - D.W. MacKenzie - Mises Daily: "However, even those who follow politics very closely do not understand the implications of changes in public policy. The lesson here is that efforts to incrementally reform government policies and programs through the democratic process are futile. To the extent that we vote at all, rational people should vote to depoliticize the economy."

Kind slips past Kapanke to retain seat

Kind slips past Kapanke to retain seat: "Kapanke said it was easier to lose on a night when his party regained control of the U.S. House as well as both chambers of the state legislature.
“It was never about me,” he said. “The country’s in better hands. The state is in better hands.”"

"Outside interest groups targeted the largely agricultural district with an unprecedented level of spending — almost exclusively on the right — bankrolling attacks on Kind."

According to http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?cycle=2010&id=WI03 Kind received over $1,000,000 in PAC money (compared to $55,000 for Kapanke) -- that doesn't count "soft money" but it sounds like Kind got a lot of money from "Outside interest groups".