the minds of the average voter, or does it tend to tell the average voter who to vote for?
Can one predict an election's outcome purely by observing a particular campaign's news coverage?
2007-09-01 21:15:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
The media have decided who will be "their
candidates" and can get quite pissy if then the
people dare even to dream about an own will.
The Iowa debate was pure disneyland -
ooops didn't disney even pay for it, just
the preprinted result didn't fit reality at all.
And if it's getting really narrow for one of the
corrupt wheenies who are 'chosen' then rupert
murdoch will use cheney's drug connections and
flood the market with really cheap stuff shortly before
the elections, so a perhaps more really confused
potsmokers will vote like, southern, uhm new mexico
:D as the usual tax dodgers do anyway as always.
with texans I rarely got problems btw, rather with those
who moved there - for what reason ever. maybe another
constitution to uhm save - perhaps a sincer 2nd try ok -
as it admittably didn't work too with the first one - granted..
2007-09-01 21:56:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 1⤋
You should do a nifty search on the articles of the major newspapers about the economy prior to BJ Clinton's first win against George Bush. If you read the papers in the 3 weeks prior to the election we were headed into a recession and 3 weeks after the election it was all fine. If you doubt this - look it up.
2007-09-02 04:21:49 · answer #2 · answered by netjr 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every party and every candidate always complains they are being unfairly treated by the Media. It's a convenient and easy excuse for their own shortcomings and mistakes.
The media was certainly behind John Kerry (except for that whole conservative, privately funded Swiftboat thing, which if they can prove any of those charges were not true should land the whole bunch of them in jail) and he didn't win. so I think the claim that the media has a big influence over who wins holds no water.
2007-09-02 07:07:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You can see who the media wants to run in their coverage. Right now it is Hillary and Rudy, but that could all change if their make some editor mad. Go Fred Thompson!
2007-09-02 06:11:37 · answer #4 · answered by Jeff E 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes and Yes unless the public pull it's head out and votes in Ron Paul. All other candidates are different side of the same coin. Big money, big media, big crooks.
2007-09-02 07:03:52 · answer #5 · answered by 4warned 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I believe the public is smarter than that. Remember, the media tried to get Gore and Kerry elected.
2007-09-02 11:34:07 · answer #6 · answered by jdkilp 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋