"What's clear is that 2012 is a mountain campaign," write Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake in The Washington Post. "Molehills are a thing of the past."
They're talking about the incredible success the two parties' campaigns have had at making everyone who even vaguely pays attention to politics feel a little dirtier and a lot dumber. Turning "molehills" -- The Fix reporter list "Etch A Sketch, stay-at-home moms, caterpillars, dog-eating, silver spoons and cookie-gate" as examples -- into "mountains." And it certainly feels like the Romney and Obama camps have become uniquely skilled at the dark arts of distracting us from thinking about anything that actually matters. But is it true?
