At this point in an election year, when advertisements from candidates and super PACs begin to march across the line between “constant” and “oppressive”; when the attacks levied by the respective campaigns begin to get faster, looser and more frequent; and when most voters are just beginning to pay attention, the political media tends to go into high theater criticism mode.Every decision the candidates make, whether conscious or merely perceived, is analyzed by members of the media not from the viewpoint of the journalists themselves, but rather from what they imagine is the perspective of an average voter — or an undecided voter, or a female voter, or a Latino voter, and so on.