"Politicians can't experiment with messages," Mr. Dowd said. "They can't get voter response. Seventy or 80 years ago, a politician could go give a speech in Des Moines and road-test some ideas and then refine it and then test it again in Milwaukee."

Baloney.

They said the same thing about Jack Benny and Johnny Carson: Benny got by on the same shtick for decades, but Johnny Carson had to come up with something new and funny every night for decades. And you know what? Carson pulled it off.

Today's politicians will adapt or become dinosaurs and sink into the mire.

YouTube is part of the solution not part of the problem.