When one spends a few weeks seeing the various things Swamplanders obsess about, or read the bits of WaPo chats with journalists where they let it hang out a bit, one realizes that the Villagers are having this conversation amongst themselves which is almost entirely detached from any substantive policy issues. Politics is just a role playing game, candidates lunge and counterstrike, and an "RNC press release" is a +12 Vorpal Sword.
