How could television never be invented, or at least not invented until much later? Is this even possible, or was the advent of television only inevitable after radio and movies? I think that, had television never been invented, there would be a significant effect on politics. In 1960, a majority of people who watched the Nixon-Kennedy debates on television said that they thought Kennedy was the winner, while those who listened to it on the radio thought otherwise. Since then, image has always been a factor in electoral politics.