Some commentators complain how many news shows don't even focus on the actual candidates and their positions so much as they focus on handicapping the horse race. How is it that political advisors become TV personalities in their own right? These guys don't make laws, they are backroom advisors. Whether it's Carville or Rove, they are celebrities now. That is quite strange, to be honest.
Still, all of this attention around the horse race and the details of the campaigning process is very educational to the American public. People are learning about why ads run in certain states and not others, about how candidates tailor their message at every stop, how they have entire staffs to deal with media blowups, etc. What is happening is that the public is getting savvy to all these tactics, and they are losing their effectiveness. Maybe sooner or later candidates will actually have to sit down and talk about their positions. I think we have cable news to thank for putting people on the inside of the process, and that's worth the price of the bloviating and rancor that comes out of some of the format of many cable news shows.
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