More evidence that American voters are smarter than pols think they are

Much as I deplore the obscene amount of money flooding political campaigns, there are some small victories.     This latest example is from Alaska.

In Tuesday's runoff election for mayor of Ankorage, the state's largest city and home to 40% of the state's population, Democratic candidate Ethan Berkowitz had a commanding lead of 59% over his radical, right-wing opponent, Amy Demboski's 41%.

My interest in this comes from the fact, as reported by Daily Kos, that the loser had financial backing from Koch money, as well as support of several evangelical preachers.

There seem to be two possibilities for getting out of this mess created by uncontrolled amounts of money:   (1) a constitutional amendment to put in controls;  or (2) a more naturalistic solution where total saturation of political ads no longer works;   people just ignore them.

I would love for it to be the latter.

Ralph