The tech that changed elections forever
Politics tamfitronics What’s the most important technology in the history of politics? Born on the battlefield and evolved at a pivotal time in US history, the walkie-talkie-lookie changed the way Americans saw politicians. Literally. In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were squaring off in the US presidential election and the walkie-talkie-lookie helped beam the candidates into the homes of millions of voters for the first time.Right before the conventions in the June 1952 issue of Popular Sciencereporter Gardner Soule wrote that the new “walkie-talkie-lookie” would make it possible to “pursue a Presidential candidate or a delegate right up to the door of his bathroom.” Soule also noted that this technology and its ability to follow a subject anywhere was “a thought to chill almost anyone,...
