It s the only option I have to make anything better. What this country needs is a dad . The grassroots atmospherics, as shot and edited, were superb. All the threads of the electoral process were in place ideas, discourse, sentiment, substance, showbiz, blarney and uncommitted voters whose articulateness chased cynicism away. A single contribution by a pollster, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Center for the People and the Press, was reserved for three minutes of the final hour.
Nothing is perfect.
This lapse cries for correction next time, if public-broadcast space is to mirror America. They deserved far more space than the gratuitous Nader sound bite we got. Several brief interjections on the Supreme Court were hardly enough. But practice makes perfect. Time to Choose as a tour de force confronts the leadership of NPR and PBS with the next challenging plateau.