From James Socol:

I couldn’t have said it better myself: “fundamental misunderstanding.”

It amazes me how often you see people, often “experts” or “authorities” in their fields make mistakes like that. I wonder how one rises to a position of importance in the campaign when they really shouldn’t have passed some of their undergraduate classes.

Reply from Lindsey LaTour:

Well, here is the thing: I don’t think either side has “passed” some of those classes. Don’t get me started on Obama’s Greek columns and the rhetoric behind them.

I’m not trying to call one side or the other stupid. It’s just alarming to me that pictures and stage sets get by like that seemingly without any real consideration for the meaning of it all. “Oh, aren’t those columns pretty. Yes, that would look nice.” Are you kidding me? Everything has meaning. Nothing is generic or merely decoration.

Didn’t our political communicators learn anything from the ballot design debacle of 2000? Design is EVERYTHING. It is the form and the function..

It is frustrating for me to see such important elements brushed aside or carelessly planned.