Not intending to start a political discussion here, as the tone of the post is rather optimistic (I did enjoy the festival greatly) but I don't believe in the "rural voters which are easier to fool" mantra anymore. If you look at the profile of the ruling party voters, you will see a lot of urban voters between 35-50, who have strong ties with the state apparatus (city hall clerks, civil servants, etc).

So it's more like a strongly pervasive mentality of "let them steal a lot if they leave us steal a little" than a really big discrepancy in the IQ of Romania inhabitants.