I’m often reminded of that. But once again it hit my while I’ve been reading lately.  I’m reading Team of Rivals, which is about Abe Lincoln and his Presidential Cabinet (and political career in general).  In the book it discusses how printing presses were cheap and the newspapers of the day were political mouth pieces for the various parties. New papers would start up, and people could get their opinions/ideas out to the general readership of the paper.

Flash forward to 2010. You have blogs that are in most cases free, or relatively cheap.  All political parties have blogs that are the standard bearer for that party, or even the party in a certain geographical area. New ones spring up all the time.  Of course these blogs can be read by anyone in the world. They are more advanced than the news papers of the 1800′s. But the general idea is the same. They convey the same messages.

People evolve and use the new tools that are out there to reach the people just the same as they did back then.  It was interesting to read that, because it is so easy to just gloss over it or not even realize how things used to work. We’ve come so far since the 1800′s, but essentially it isn’t anything new.