21st November 2014, 12:50 PM
ABF, one notable thing is that elderly people voted in far greater numbers in this election compared to the younger demographics. The younger groups now care a lot more about politics, but they only care about the president.
It's a failing of the internet, I think, that it's nearly impossible to get local news to become as popular as world news. Heck, the Daily Show only has so much time, and while they can mock presidential candidates on a personal level, they can only grab a handful of idiots from state elections, and generally don't even have the time for city level elections (unless it's New York, that'll get whole episodes about drink size restrictions).
I think we've got to figure out some system to set up to get larger groups of people online more directly involved in the reporting and discussing of local issues. That might "get the vote out" as I think someone in the '90s once said.
It's a failing of the internet, I think, that it's nearly impossible to get local news to become as popular as world news. Heck, the Daily Show only has so much time, and while they can mock presidential candidates on a personal level, they can only grab a handful of idiots from state elections, and generally don't even have the time for city level elections (unless it's New York, that'll get whole episodes about drink size restrictions).
I think we've got to figure out some system to set up to get larger groups of people online more directly involved in the reporting and discussing of local issues. That might "get the vote out" as I think someone in the '90s once said.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)