[Supermancho]

> If they were sick of it, they wouldn’t lap it up

The evidence does not support that.

People will often ignore their own plights (from which they are tired and feel trapped or impotent) to engage in remote problems with a feeling of authority and power. Voting for a federal office is the ultimate diversion. Rather than argue and campaign for local changes where they understand exactly what impact they can make (or not make), they invest in a far away problem for which they feel like there is a different performance profile.

People are sick of some crisis mongering, they just like a change of pace.