It's the media that runs this country. The decisions they make influence the American people, which in turn, influences polls.
That's how dumb the American people (as a whole) really are.
@jax: It's actually the owners of the media that control the country. I recently read that all of the large media in the USA are all owned by a handful of people. 4951
Obama has lost a lot of his overseas popularity.  When he visited Germany in 2008, over 200,000 people attended to hear him speak.  When he went recently, less than 10,000 people showed up.  Maybe he should have reminded them that he won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing! 4951
@Retired_Engineer It's been a while for me too. But one of the characters was a capitalist and owned a large paper. He hired a socialist to run one of the columns. The capitalist thought he could keep the socialist (Toohey) under control. But while the capitalist was tending to his business the socialist contiued to hire on all his buddies. Towards the end of the book when the owner wrote an oped piece defending the main character (Roark's) individuality all the socialists went on strike and closed his paper.So yes maybe corporations own the media, but it is full of socialists and commie's. 4951