low-information

English

Adjective

low-information (comparative more low-information, superlative most low-information)

  1. (politics, euphemistic) Ignorant, out of the loop, acting without an extensive or sophisticated understanding of the political situation. Used especially in the term "low-information voter".
    • 2004, William E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman, Studies in Public Opinion: Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change., Princeton University Press:
      Among low information voters, attitudes are less ideologically consistent and hence do less to tie voters to parties.
    • 2016, Michael Tesler, Post-Racial or Most-Racial?: Race and Politics in the Obama Era, University of Chicago Press:
      The upshot is that low-information whites linked their racial attitudes to their partisan attachments at nearly the same high rates as their better-educated counterparts did in these two 2012 surveys.
    • 2018, Val Atkinson, Distractions, Distortions, Deceptions, and Outright Lies: Diversiont that Keep the SOuth Red, Poor People Poor, and Plutocrats and Oligarchs in Power, Trafford Publishing:
      Republicans' entire approach to distracting low-information working-class whites with "dog whistle, sound bites, and bumper sticker slogans" will have to change.
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