Basically, you are getting attention not for your beliefs or your stance on the issues, but your star power. We have yet to cast a single vote on the canidates and it seems that the news media has already narrowed the field down to 2 canidates on each side.
2007-06-05 04:16:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes. It's caused the campaigning to start too early, since the news shows don't have anything else to fill up 24 hours but the campaign. And then they don't do a good job of covering it, since they focus too much on polls and not enough on issues. Though ultimately it's the fault of the people who watch those shows because of this nonsense.
2007-06-05 04:53:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think it has yet, but there is potential it will ruin it in the end. I do not think the media has narrowed it down to 2 candidates already. Which two has to narrowed to? Guilianni and Hillary? Mit and Obama? Edwards and McCain?
2007-06-05 11:27:30 · answer #2 · answered by gerafalop 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's always something.
Back in '68, everybody was in the running up until the conventions and we still ended up with Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon. I can't say that was a much better choice than we've seen in recent elections.
2007-06-05 11:22:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bad thing is about 24hr news coverage of presidential candidates is that you never really know the true intentions of them since they are politicking 24/7 and want to maintain a "clean" image.
2007-06-05 11:21:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. Howard Dean's run for the President got ruined by a constant replay of a "Yee Haw".
2007-06-05 11:20:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋