http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2008/03/10/oops-my-mistake/ Sat, 18 May 2013 18:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2008/03/10/oops-my-mistake/comment-page-1/#comment-1689 craig Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:11:44 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2008/03/10/oops-my-mistake/#comment-1689 The next question we and the journalist might ask is “how well do we know the candidates and their positions on issues?”With what political scientists call political IQ, people in 1920 knew as much if not more about politics than people know today. This at a time when maybe a third of the population go to college and we live in the so called information age.
Locally the political parties are very weak, some political scientists would say that’s because we have a candidate centered system where interest groups contoll the party.
Local TV stations also keep citizens in the dark. Covering 80 or so cities and towns in places like the Bay Area and having a fondness for crime stories , most folks who get their news through TV are likely to get “no local coverage,” from local TV news,unlike TV’s very boastful but maybe Orwellian like, actual motto of “complete local coverage.”
Charles is a good guy in my opinion, I think he’ll run a relatively good campaign.
A futuristic thing we might be able to do in a decade or two would be to purchase the domain name http://www.sanleandroelections.org and then allow all candidates to ‘steam’ their reason for running and their priority issues.Perhaps a bright ‘techie’ will advocate something like this. Signs all over the city “complete local election information” http://www.sanleandroelections.org.
My site http://www.developingdemocracy.com also addresses this issue but has been coldly rejected by school and elected officials.
We all, in theory ,love democracy and support campaign finance reform, to mix a Sorjourer Truth “Ain’t this campaign finance reform.”

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