So that's where we went. And it worked. And that's where the Garvey campaign has been forced to go, along with looking for the mavericks and the malcontents. The print press situation has changed so much in the last 20 years as to be unrecognizable. Twenty years ago there were two major dailies that could be considered state papers.
Today there are none.
Twenty years ago there were several reporters who covered politics and political campaigns and didn't have to be titillated by coat-holding battles over issues. They were curious about who these candidates were, and whether who they were and where they came from and what they believed in would be useful qualities in the governor's office. The papers are gone, the reporters are mostly gone, and most of those who are left don't report on character, only plot. The Capital Times is almost a Garvey house organ, and the Wisconsin State Journal has done a warm and fuzzy Sunday piece on Ed and Barbara and the campaign. But these are local, regional at best, papers.