are politicians different from celebrities?

The Politico reports that Rudy Giuliani’s moderate views are a hit with “youth”:

According to a Nov. 1 Rock the Vote poll of 18-to-29-year-olds, for example, Giuliani led former Sen. Fred Thompson by 12 points — around the same advantage Giuliani averages in polls among all Republicans nationally. …

Giuliani has better prospects in the general election than his GOP rivals. Pollster Scott Rasmussen says the New Yorker has consistently outperformed other Republicans among voters ages 18 to 29.

Various observers raise their votes in protest that the only reason the yute like Giuliani is a) because they know his name and b) they know him from 9/11, when the world began. Plus, scoffs one observer,

“The idea they’ve got [about Giuliani] is about celebrity rather than politics.”

Younger voters are more likely to get their political information from television and less from newspapers than older voters, [he] added.

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Now, I have no idea why Giuliani is popular among young people, but I have another idea—the idea underpinning this blog—that in today’s world (and until further notice) politicians, and anyone else seeking to have an effect in today’s complex world, which is united by instant communication of information across the globe, are exactly the same as celebrities.

Politicians are just a bunch of actors waiting in the wings for their opportunity to perform on the world stage. Could it be that the “yute” are wiser than the rest of us?