The fact that politicians pretend that votes provide approval for a candidate's agenda, however, remain a convenient fictions for candidates — especially presidential ones — who , despite routinely garnering votes from under 30 percent of the eligible voters — and under 20 percent of the population overall — nevertheless claim to have the approval of "the people."
At least 95% of incumbents in Congress typically retain office. That is a higher proportion than in the Supreme Soviet of the defunct USSR, and a lower turnover rate than in Britain’s hereditary House of Lords where people lose their seats only by dying.And they say we don't have an aristocracy.
As it turns out, a surprising amount of science coverage could be described as little more than marketing for elite research centers. A few commentators have acknowledged part of the problem; Nature magazine, for instance, expressed concern that journalists act as “cheerleaders” who perform a “public-relations service” for scientists, and so the magazine called on scientists to help the press “cast a fair but skeptical eye” over the scientific enterprise.It's always easier to just cover press releases unedited than do actual work.
