Re: Time will tell.
I like to think that the Internet is going to make voters even more informed over time
I disagree. If anything it allows too many voters to become even more uninformed as they go only to web sites that cater to their preferred biases and spoon-feeds them the propaganda they want to hear.
Why do you think the right wingnuts always tell you about the ratings of specific shows on Faux Noise? Why do the right wingnuts refuse to open up their minds and visit sites that may present different viewpoints?
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
