Reply #7: I think it was like it is now on the internet

[MissWaverly]

I know this is weird, but I was born in 1953, TV was not that widespread, people focused on the party platform, what the candidates
SAID, what their education, experience and voting record was, but with the emergence of TV suddenly the news became a visual thing, good and bad points, but campaigning has become slick 60 second sound bites, with the candidate isolated from real questions and there is an emphasis on LOOKS, (Al Gore saying that he's sexy, but Kerry is not). Now with the internet, there is a lot more emphasis on fact, what people THINK and not on appearance,
we don't have fuzzy warm, talking heads kind of baloney here. So, I think this is a lot more like radio than TV! Thank God!