History to inform voters

As this campaign proceeds, let's have more information on the candidates' records.  We need to know what they have done, accomplished, supported, opposed.  It's the best way to predict how, once in office, a striver will conduct themselves.


And why can't we get more good follow up questions?  When someone says they will expand the military, ask them how to pay for it - raise taxes, cut something else?  And when an outlandish claim is made about the past, call them on it.  So when Rubio or Cruz tell the audience that soon we'll have the smallest navy in a 100 years, can't we at least respond with the obvious "including World War II? - but of course our press corps knows not nearly enough to ask.


The claims and proposals of our strivers for office need to be tested and fact-checked.  A reference to history often serves to clarify for the voters, most of whom have not consulted the past - except of course in their everyday lives, everyday.