Barack Obama raised $7.8 million in one jam-packed fundraising weekend in San Francisco. Thankfully, he didn't refer to any hard-working Americans has bitter, like he did during his last San Francisco fundraiser. That doesn't mean that he didn't shy away from generalizations about the voting public and our likes and dislikes. His conclusion: we are rather receptive to negative politics. If he were wrong, John McCain wouldn't be inundating us with negative ads, now would he?

"The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has not been serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They tune out," he said. "And they start saying to themselves, a plague on both your houses. They are willing to consume negative information more frequently than positive information, for good reason. They've seen how promises haven't been kept."

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