Television Democracy

A quote from my book: 

In his memoir, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War”, Robert Gates writes that Congress members immediately change their opinions when a television camera shows up.[1] Their behavior turns from understanding and conciliatory to crude and uncivilized as if they put their own interests before the needs of the United States. Their activities are focused on the own reelection. The favorable response of a public opinion poll seems most important. These ambiguities are the secret of American politics.

Do you agree that Senatorial Candidates who respond to the question who they voted for in 2008 and 2012 with "Ahhhhhhhh-uhhhhhhhhhhhM" clearly see the polls as more important than integrity and their truth! 

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[1]   Robert M. Gates, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War, Borzoi Book/Alfred Knopf Publishing, New York 2014