I have a question.
The citizens of the United States own the air waves. We ‘lease’ the rights to them to the broadcast companies. The candidates have to buy air time from these companies. To pay the bill they have to ask for lots of money from contributors — could be a problem here.
Our politicians need to reach the citizens with their ideas, promises, plans, etc. And voters need to fully understand the consequences of their votes.
Why don’t we give better access to our presidential candidates? Why do we depend on the press to monitor the access? Why don’t we just let them talk to us directly? I know they have websites, but they’re mostly geared up to get donations, and it takes lots of work to actually compare the two.
For instance each presidential candidate could have access to 15 minutes of prime time for each of the last four weeks of the campaign to outline their plans. Am surprised CSPAN doesn’t do this. Maybe they do and I’m clueless.
I haven’t spoken to anyone who can tell me what the actual differences are between the candidates health care programs, tax proposals, economic philosophies, etc. But they definitely have intense emotional opinions about the different personalities.
Can more access with more relevant information make a difference?
Or am I just naive? –Bingo!
