Do presidential campaigns adequately inform the voter?

I've been doing some research for a class and am focusing on the presidential campaign of 1968 (Nixon vs. Humphrey) and seems to me, in this particular election at least, that the voters were not being adequately informed. For a start there were no televised debates that year so a lot of emphasis was placed on 60 second ads and other forms of short & snappy TV advertising which obviously don't go into as much detail in terms of a candidate's policies as newspaper articles do.
Plus as the New York Times remarked, that “Mr Nixon has published a collection of positions he has taken on 167 issues. It seems a pity he could not have made it a round 170 by adding Vietnam, the cities and civil rights”. This other extreme- bombarding the voter with too much information about literally hundreds of different issues- is probably not a great idea either. A clear explanation of his proposed "secret plan" in Vietnam would probably have been better.
What do you all think? Would be great to get another perspective

I think you will find most people are pretty skeptical about the genuiness of candidate's statements.

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Well, you're certainly not going to be adequately informed by the Democrats, Republicans and their sycophants in the media. All you're going to get are campaign promises, lies and spin (which are all essentially the same thing).

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"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

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America is the only country that has campaigns that last for 2 years. If your not informed enough, shame on you.

We're disgustingly OVER informed. Half of what I heard the bobbleheads discussing was absolutely nobody's business.

When we ask our Presidential candidates "boxers or briefs?", it's gotten way out of hand.

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Nope, they are based on the best of lies....

In the old days, before TV, presidential candidates would go from state to state telling the voters what they wanted to hear. Then their campaign promises were quite specific. Now, with national media, they puke out general lies that literally have no meaning. Like Bush saying he was a "uniter not a divider." A great meaningless lie....

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