And it hasn't been for a long time. That graphic is from this post from 2010 about Citizen's United.
So my next doomed word-of-mouth campaign is urging that, whenever you hear pundits tsk-tsking the folly or ignorance or cruelty or 'economic anxiety' of "voters", "the public" or "the American people", kindly put a digital boot up their ass with my compliments.
This disaster was not brought to us by "voters", "the public" or "the American people". It was delivered to us by the same bigots and imbeciles who always visit such catastrophes on us.
It's the Republicans, stupid.
I Am The Liberal Media