presidency itself. So focused on reelection are today's politicians, their campaigns have become substitutes for governing. For a president as well as a candidate it is a struggle to live in the here and now.
The machinery of transportation--another element of these pictures--also takes the candidate away from present time and place. Modern campaigns are reported in terms of movement and travel: "On the Road with the Candidate;'' "On the Plane with the President.'' High-speed travel is necessary when one has to cover a vast country over a short period of time, but in modern campaigns it has become something of an end in itself.
One of the very good ideas of the Clinton campaign, it seems to me, was the bus tour--not only because it
