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nal campaigns are in any way their fault.
Yet despite editorials decrying the fact that candidates like Coleman and Wilder ignore the real issues, said Prof. Sabato, the fault lies with the general public, the people who comprise the electorate.
One survey, he said, showed that while 53 percent of the American people recognized the name of Judge Wapner of “The People’s Court,” only 9 percent knew the name of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The abyssmal truth, he said, is that people in general are not interested in politics or in-depth discussion of political issues. They know little about government processes and care less. Educational institutions, from' public schools to colleges and universities, do little or nothing to teach the political process or instill in students any enthusiasm for it.
Yet everyone blames politicians for pandering to voters who yawn and turn away when anyone tries to seriously discuss the issues.
Speaking as someone who spent a quarter-century writing about elections and legislative matters, I know Sabato is on the mark. All those lengthy analytical stories I wrote about the hard-core issues and choices facing those elected to govern our state seldom drew any comment and were presumably largely unread.
But, conversely, those stories re
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