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Comment author: hyporational 24 November 2013 08:02:32AM *  6 points [-]

My interpretation:

Politicians try to say things that appeal to as many people as possible to maximize votes. Once they're elected, they can be more specific and thus more consequentalist about what they do, since for the average voter, verifying what they do is more laborious than listening to what they say.