Gentle Readers, I suspect if you like reading this Tohu Bohu, you are likely to enjoy reading Rhetorica, a blog by Andrew Cline. This morning’s note is about the peculiarity of the importance, in presidential campaigns, of hundreds of thousands of people watching events that a few hundred people experience. “I claim that it is the television audience that counts because the small number of rally attendees are used as political props. I mean no disrespect to the candidate or the props by this statement.”
I do think that people are unlikely to really enjoy (and get the hang of) political participation by following a presidential race every four years. I know it’s time-consuming, but going to a mayoral rally, or Congressional candidate debate, or even state house or school board is a better way to get started. Of course, it’s like going to AA baseball; it’s cheaper, you sit closer, and the parking is easier, but you are less likely to be dazzled by how good they are.
Oh, and yesterday Prof. Cline was talking about the same thing I was, which is pretty cool for me.
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.