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Why did the media treat the general election like a presidential poll?
I have an excellent constituency MP and when people asked me if I would be voting for Brown, Cameron or Clegg it drove me mad even first time voters asked me why these names didn't appear on their ballot papers, I blame TV, radio & the press.
Because the media know their public, and they also know how government works - in practice, the Prime Minister has more say than anyone else and the backbench MPs are just "lobby fodder" to vote through what the PM wants. I agree it's a pity that it blinds the uninformed or uninterested to what a general election actually IS, and to the other purposes of MPs, such as, as you say, working locally for the constituency and dealing with constituents' problems.
As I have pointed out many times in answers on this site when that question has been asked, I've said none of them - I'm voting (and did) for Hurd.
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