Offering voters, a way to be heard with tallies of AGREE/DISAGREE PhoneVotes provided a means for voter participation. HW ignored both these changes even after receiving the PVN proposal 12 times. Three other candidates, Ross Perot the first of these, began in February 1992 using Capitol Calling Cards supplied to him by Owners of America, Inc. PhoneVoters paid $20 for 20 votes, calling in to listen to Perot's position on an issue and then voting AGREE/DISAGREE. The compiled results were supplied to their Congressional Representatives and to the media.
This is what drove Perot to 39% in June of 1992.
Then, and even more so today, Americans were hungry to be heard. Jerry Brown and Pat Buchanan, who each used PVN services, had tallies, but their unedited speeches were broadcast over satellite nationwide. Phone Numbers for PhoneVoting appeared at the bottom of the screen. Voters came away with a stronger sense of what the candidate thought and who he was. SEE CLIPS OF SPEECHES
HW chose the far more arduous path of 'whistle-stop' campaigning in a nation which had forgotten where the local railroad stations were located, talking to ten people at each stop. His loss was from no other cause than hubris, ignorance and failure to understand the direction the world was taking.
The phone, automobile, television, and then the internet has impacted our expectations and increased the potential for interacting with those seeking public office. But this potential must be used to work.
In 1992, PVN supplied four candidates with interactive satellite TV and Telepoll services. Three of them paid for these, the fourth used PVN services, evading payment. The four candidates were Ross Perot, Jerry Brown, Pat Buchanan and Bill Clinton.
Guess which one, down to $50,000 in the old campaign chest and fleeing charges by multiple women of sexual abuse, evaded paying for services? You got it, Bill Clinton. Bill rejected free satellite time because you would have gotten to know him, without edits, in advance of the election. STORY
PVN was the work of a group of apolitical, voluntarist libertarians lead by Brock d'Avignon. who saw how they could give Americans a needed voice in our political process, enabling them to ask questions, get answers, and make better informed decisions on who they could trust to do the right thing as 'public servants' or other problem-solvers.
Phone calls tallied at the bottom of mass media TV screens was that first step in 1992. Who has done more to serve you, HW's NeoConservatives, or these guys? Here they are. They put in months of work to give you a voice.
The implication that somehow Americans are obligated to re-elect presidents, is also absurd.
After the Democratic Primaries were over Jerry Brown had missed displacing Clinton by what was calculated as three days of satellite with tallies. As the Nominee of the Democratic Party, Clinton had access to a flood of funding. Through the election, and then again for 1996, he made sure the DNC purchased satellite time for him 24/7/365. If you are a Democrat, ask yourself if your candidates for other offices in 1996 received satellite time or knew about the benefits of Interactive TV. We can find no indication this was communicated. Do let us know.
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