ABSTRACT
This chapter details how all three new dailies situated the electoral process within many of the lived experiences of an archetypal ‘man in the street’. Collectively, the three newspapers represented this individual – reflective of both much of their readership and of the period’s proto-mass electorate – as being at the heart of the political process. Elections were represented as a part, therefore, of the everyday life of millions of prospective voters and new daily readers. This empowerment of the imagined everyman, however, came with some significant limitations, and this chapter also delves into restrictions on who, according to the new dailies, had power within their shared vision of Long Edwardian democracy.
