The Chosen One of Hope and Change promised to fix everything. Have faith, o' minion.
See this shiny object? Look at it! Its shiny! S-H-I-N-E-Y, ooooooohhhh....
Don't look at my other hand. Don't you worry your pretty little heads about what its doing. Remember, my other hand... its holding something SHINEY!
My point is the American electorate has all the intelligence and sophistication of an eight year old with head trauma now. A fourth-rate hack stage magician could hypnotize them with a couple parlor tricks and stage props. PT Barnum lived in the wrong age. He'd own half the country by now if the rubes and Michael Jackson fans ever saw his name on a ballot. Laughing his ass off to the bank as well.