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In their campaign features, all three newscasts simultaneously made the strange decision to make the nation's 27m small business owners the most prominent segment of the electorate. In anchor Charles Gibson's Battleground Bus Tour through Ohio on ABC, he sat down for a vox pop on the economy with an insurance agent, a maker of Murphy beds and the proprietor of a bowling alley before moving on to the students at Bowling Green State. For NBC's In Depth preview of the debate in smalltown Tennessee, Roger O'Neil brought us the views of a beautician, a bakery owner and a community banker. Meanwhile CBS' Where They Stand series with Sandra Hughes turned to the candidates' policies on taxes, the credit crunch and healthcare as they applied to small business. Her examples were a California strawberry farmer with 30 full-time employees and the Gondola Getaway of Long Beach. Its four full-time gondoliers and 17 part-timers offer romantic cruises through the canals of Naples Island.
As one would expect, both of Hughes' entrepreneurs had little time for the Democratic policies of Barack Obama. The gondolier "bristles" at his tax plan while the farmer dismisses his healthcare proposal as "a bureaucracy."
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