I think the electorate hasn't been sufficiently well educated or informed. Just as it is not Congress' job to micromanage the executive, it is not the populaces' job to micromanage the "molehills" instead of the "mountains" of political platforms. Sure, safety and security, and lower taxes are issues, but those issues can be resolved during the course of normal business by our elected representative to government.

In my opinion, all that "fluff" detracts from the real goals the candidates should be addressing. What we still haven't heard from the candidates is how they will achieve zero percent official poverty in our faux first world economy. The reason this is more important that micromanaging foreign policy is that it directly affects us here in the United States.

A public policy of zero percent official poverty would not hinder infrastructure development or lower our standard of living, unlike the Wars on Drugs and Terror. A public policy of zero percent official poverty could result in better infrastructure development (e.g urban renewal) that could raise our standard of living. Such a public policy would also have the effect of ensuring better equality among the populace in our mixed-market economy where economic discrimination is legal.

A public policy of zero percent official poverty could also necessitate less foreign entanglements that have only increased our costs, not improved our standard of living, and have done nothing to ameliorate conditions in the US that have been around since before we realized we had sufficient economic knowledge to actually solve our domestic socioeconomic problems in a more ethical and moral manner.