Internet and politicans

I often wonder how it was possible, before the internet, for voters to know their politicians. Nowadays almost every politicians have a web page on their on where they share their thoughts with the public.

Like we know in Icelandic politics there were usually almost always the same politicians who were voted for the parliament, now I'm not saying that they didn't deserve there place, but mainly that the voters didn't knew many other politicians. Many of the politicians who got voted had been in the parliament for many years and it's quiet difficult for younger politicians to get their say, they were immediately shut down be the more experienced once.

After the crash of the Icelandic banks we have seen the most of the political party's have renewed their party´s, with much younger politicians, and many of them were not publicly known, but with the power of the internet they managed to get their publicity, and no one was able to shut them down if they wanted, they were (are) there, whether the other politicians liked it or not, and the public voted for them (or most of them).

So in my opinion I think think internet is very good thing for politics, everyone get's to have their say.