Sure, I don't vote for this reason, but I'm not so dogmatic about it. My last vote was for Ron Paul int he primaries and it may stay that way.
On the propaganda note though, they *always* have some bullshit excuse, and I just don't consider that one very powerful. It only work on people who are stupid and accepting enough of the system, that literally *any* other excuse or bullshit they peddled would be swallowed whole regardless. So the question, in my mind, is whether the "75 million people support me" is a special and specifically useful propaganda, or if it's just one of the huge batch of dumb shit they pull out every time?
I lean toward the latter. They always have the "good sound bite" that proves they are the best and that everything good that happens is directly because of them and everything bad that happens is either unavoidable or caused by the last guy.
So i get what you are saying, but generally don't find it a very special or particularly convincing line of BS. It only convinces the same people who are convinced by literally anything they say, imo.
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