Before revision:  Two salient patterns emerge in equilibrium as we increase the attention cost or garble the news technology : first, arousing and attracting voter' s attention becomes harder; second, doing so leads the varying types of the candidates to adopt extreme and exaggerated policy and issue positions .
After revision:  Two salient patterns emerge in equilibrium as we increase the attention cost or garble the news technology , a truncated set of the equilibria captures voters' attention through enlarging the policy differentials between the varying types of the candidates to adopt extreme and exaggerated policy and issue positions .