Reply #21: why should we do it without google? [View All]

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Is it a bad thing to learn something new by looking it up? I happen to be from the midwest. Unless they run for President, we are not gonna hear that much about a New York or other east coast senator. I had never heard of Lieberman either until Gore picked him as Veep.

1992 happens to be a long, long time ago. I remember when I was teaching economics in 1990 and I would talk about Reaganomics and expect my students to remember that since it was practically current history. Then I realized that they were only 20 and Reagan was elected when they were 10 and probably not paying that much attention to politics. In the days before CNN, CSpan, and the internets, sources of information were kinda limited between the AP and the big three.

I thought it was kinda odd when Bob Dole ran for President in 1996 and many people older than me did not remember that he ran for Vice President in 1976.