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Many
of you are affliated with the reform efforts put together by the Alliance
for Better Campaigns. What changes would you like to see made?
PAUL
TAYLOR replies:
I've
used this metaphor: It is the candidates, the consultants and the journalists
who are in effect, the co-producers of this show called politics. The show
doesn't work anymore. The show, by the end of the show the theater is half,
two-thirds, three-quarters empty. Let's make it a better show. It's of course,
more than a show. But you can't be less than a show. And at the moment it
is less than a show. And the market has told people that.
I
mean, if this were any other industry, politics is spending four times more
on itself in real dollars than it did a generation ago. And it has fewer and
fewer customers. If this was any other industry, it would be completely out
of business.
But
this is not an industry, it's integral to the way we conduct our society.
Let's start, let's start searching for better ways of doing it.
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