Cell Phones Mean Shorter Political Terms

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Waleed Aly wrote an article that explains how the speed at which technology is advancing is having a negative / positive (depending upon your political views) effect on the political realm. 

Aly speaks specifically about Australia, and makes no mention of this influence in the United States, but I'm curious if we will ever get to a place in our society where we never have a double-term president again, simply based on the fact that we are getting to much information about them or their competitors. Aly notes that the 24-hour news cycle and "culture of sound-bite politics" has a lot to do with why Australia has been cycling through multiple prime ministers in the past few years.

I'm wondering if it all comes down to what people hear about a candidate within the fortnight or so before an election day that really sways their decision. However, if people have been hearing nothing but good things about someone, and then hear about a couple of skeletons in the closet a few days before an election, are people really going to vote for someone else based on that? Is that enough to sway your vote on such short notice, especially if you have no hard-core evidence that the rumors about your chosen candidate are true? 

I understand that people are busy (I'm one of those folks) and it is really difficult to gather, sort, interpret, and then act upon the massive amounts of information that are revealed to us on a daily basis. But, I would think that, overall, we make a decision about something like who we want to be the leader of our nation based on more that a 10-second video clip of some social faux pas. Right? 

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