More Election Thoughts
Well, it's getting close to the wire, isn't it? I'm starting to see campaign ads on almost every channel and certainly the news shows are giving the event their full attention. Take Good Morning America, this morning, which pulled a "random sampling" (one might imagine they would have used the words "Heartland" and "mainstream" if they thought they could get away with it) of voters to pose questions to representatives of both the Republican and Democrat parties.
The questions, unsurprisingly, were as one-sided as the chosen "voters". The last one slickly asked how she, a working woman holding down three jobs, could be helped in health care coverage by Congress. The Democrat of course pushed raising the minimum wage and using the federal government as a negotiator for the umpteen million uninsured Americans. It almost looked like an SNL skit it was so comical and I'd have sworn it was staged if I didn't think GMA would be so blatant. The Republican just talked about saving the tax cuts, because as she rigthly pointed out, the Democrats have already indicated they want all those cuts and credits, many for middle income people, to go away. She didn't get to say much more, though, as the host cut her off.
This is what we get every election cycle. The same assinine questions posed the same trite way skewing the issues so that Left issues equal good and Right issues equal bad. It's not a wonder they're losing viewership and credibility by the month. Our mainstream networks act as propaganda arms for anyone who follows their line of bigger government, more taxes on anyone they deem "rich" (read: holding down a job) and more giveaways to their special interests. It amazes me that anyone buys this stuff after all these years.
On a different "already picked the horse" note, Mike Kole mentions on his site how the Indianapolis Star not only disregarded him in their "Voter's Guide", but every Libertarian candidate. Now there's no telling as to why, but my guess would be that the gods of the Star have in their wisdom already decided that since no third party has a chance in Hell of winning, they don't need to list them. The paper copy of the Star definitely left them out, but I see now they've got Mike and others on the online version. Ok, so either it was an oversight or they got enough negative feedback to make them clean up their mess. Either way, very shoddy work.
Please be courteous and provide feedback to the would-be overlords of the Star editorial board and remind them that it is the citizenry and not the media that controls the elections in this country. This behavior is nothing short of disgraceful. I would've expected such a tactic from Pravda back in the Soviet Communist Party's heyday, and not from a local paper allegedly providing accurate election coverage.
I hear Julia Carson is still chugging along in the 7th District. Probably the best editorial I've yet seen on her asks how she can be the helpless innocent soul when it comes to attack ads approved by her campaign wailing and even drawing first blood from her opponent Dickerson and in the next breath be the strongest Democratic politician in Indiana. Folks, she didn't get to be Jacobs' hand-picked successor for nothing. She was the iron-fisted tyrant of a Trustee in Marion County and has used it effectively over the years to roust the welfare rolls to get out in sufficient numbers to vote for her. Not that she needs it as much in the continuing to grow Democrat bastion of the 7th, but there it is nonetheless.
Most of my amusement has been in watching the major media outlets call the race weeks before it happens, but the true test of their prognosticative skills will be Tuesday. If what we already know of their current polling is taken into account, we don't really know what's going to happen on Election Day. Oversampling Democrats, not always polling likely voters, sampling heavily from urban and largely liberal districts all lead to incorrect or skewed polling data. The American electorate has never been more than minority self-described Democrat and is certainly not very liberal leaning. Still, expect the news media to push their canard for all its worth until the last poll booth closes. All the easier to suppress the vote in areas that are heavily contested.
Something to keep in mind is that rarely will you get the whole story and unfortunately it takes a lot of reading and a lot of research as well as being exposed to a lot of bipartisan BS before you can even begin to make sense of it. Still, if you're questioning what information you've been given and are trying ot sort the fact from fiction, perhaps just over your morning coffee, then you have a good chance of making some sense out of your vote on Tuesday.
Well, it's getting close to the wire, isn't it? I'm starting to see campaign ads on almost every channel and certainly the news shows are giving the event their full attention. Take Good Morning America, this morning, which pulled a "random sampling" (one might imagine they would have used the words "Heartland" and "mainstream" if they thought they could get away with it) of voters to pose questions to representatives of both the Republican and Democrat parties.
The questions, unsurprisingly, were as one-sided as the chosen "voters". The last one slickly asked how she, a working woman holding down three jobs, could be helped in health care coverage by Congress. The Democrat of course pushed raising the minimum wage and using the federal government as a negotiator for the umpteen million uninsured Americans. It almost looked like an SNL skit it was so comical and I'd have sworn it was staged if I didn't think GMA would be so blatant. The Republican just talked about saving the tax cuts, because as she rigthly pointed out, the Democrats have already indicated they want all those cuts and credits, many for middle income people, to go away. She didn't get to say much more, though, as the host cut her off.
This is what we get every election cycle. The same assinine questions posed the same trite way skewing the issues so that Left issues equal good and Right issues equal bad. It's not a wonder they're losing viewership and credibility by the month. Our mainstream networks act as propaganda arms for anyone who follows their line of bigger government, more taxes on anyone they deem "rich" (read: holding down a job) and more giveaways to their special interests. It amazes me that anyone buys this stuff after all these years.
On a different "already picked the horse" note, Mike Kole mentions on his site how the Indianapolis Star not only disregarded him in their "Voter's Guide", but every Libertarian candidate. Now there's no telling as to why, but my guess would be that the gods of the Star have in their wisdom already decided that since no third party has a chance in Hell of winning, they don't need to list them. The paper copy of the Star definitely left them out, but I see now they've got Mike and others on the online version. Ok, so either it was an oversight or they got enough negative feedback to make them clean up their mess. Either way, very shoddy work.
Please be courteous and provide feedback to the would-be overlords of the Star editorial board and remind them that it is the citizenry and not the media that controls the elections in this country. This behavior is nothing short of disgraceful. I would've expected such a tactic from Pravda back in the Soviet Communist Party's heyday, and not from a local paper allegedly providing accurate election coverage.
I hear Julia Carson is still chugging along in the 7th District. Probably the best editorial I've yet seen on her asks how she can be the helpless innocent soul when it comes to attack ads approved by her campaign wailing and even drawing first blood from her opponent Dickerson and in the next breath be the strongest Democratic politician in Indiana. Folks, she didn't get to be Jacobs' hand-picked successor for nothing. She was the iron-fisted tyrant of a Trustee in Marion County and has used it effectively over the years to roust the welfare rolls to get out in sufficient numbers to vote for her. Not that she needs it as much in the continuing to grow Democrat bastion of the 7th, but there it is nonetheless.
Most of my amusement has been in watching the major media outlets call the race weeks before it happens, but the true test of their prognosticative skills will be Tuesday. If what we already know of their current polling is taken into account, we don't really know what's going to happen on Election Day. Oversampling Democrats, not always polling likely voters, sampling heavily from urban and largely liberal districts all lead to incorrect or skewed polling data. The American electorate has never been more than minority self-described Democrat and is certainly not very liberal leaning. Still, expect the news media to push their canard for all its worth until the last poll booth closes. All the easier to suppress the vote in areas that are heavily contested.
Something to keep in mind is that rarely will you get the whole story and unfortunately it takes a lot of reading and a lot of research as well as being exposed to a lot of bipartisan BS before you can even begin to make sense of it. Still, if you're questioning what information you've been given and are trying ot sort the fact from fiction, perhaps just over your morning coffee, then you have a good chance of making some sense out of your vote on Tuesday.
posted by Rob Beck | 11:45 PM
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