But I think the way the early presidential primaries and caucuses are, in places like New Hampshire and Iowa, that there's some remnant to the grass-roots aspect of the presidential campaign. But with a national election, of course you have the media, and when they settle all over a guy like they have George W. Bush right now, it kind of takes away from the voter's importance. At Florida State, where I go to school, there's about 3,000 people voting in student elections. So the candidates for student office, they go to the fraternities, and the sororities, and the main student unions the people who are going to vote. You see that in a presidential election too.
Nobody reaches out to the people beyond that.
People are being elected president now who are getting about a quarter of the eligible electorate, and that makes it hard for them to claim a true majority or a mandate from the people. That way they could do it anytime at work, at home, at the library. People would have no excuses then. You need to reach out to new people, to people who are disenfranchised from politics. They need to find a way to reach into those people's lives and talk to them.