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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe news coverage today should tell you what we're up against
The most repeated thing I heard today was that Mitt Romney easily defeated his republican rivals in New Hampshire. No mention of the 50% he had polled in the week preceding the vote. No mention of the President's 80% or so vote. Just reports that Romney won, as if he'd already locked up the election, much less the republican nomination that he's barely begun to amass delegates for.
It's a frustrating situation in the press where the republicans are portrayed as generating support from voters without context which would show that each candidate still trails our Democratic president, and with the context that Romney's showing is actually pathetic for a contest right next door to his home state.
I realize that cable news may well have more comprehensive coverage, but the rest of the media is lost this morning in portraying Romney's win as a supreme anointment. It's going to be a hard, long campaign in the media for Democrats. This morning's coverage proves that our President and party will need to work overtime to portray our nominee as dynamic and competitive in the months ahead.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)i was just bemoaning this bullshit yesterday.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002146387
PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)so the fact that it's 24/7 republican primary doesn't really bother me all that much. Actually, it's becoming a good thing. The GOP is really doing us a favor by doing our opposition research and providing us with stategies that could be used in the general election.
Watching the GOP eat their own sometimes is educational tv.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)to knock it out of the park and set the table for what he plans for the nation. It will be very difficult for the right to even come close to his knowledge of the nation's problems and how to solve them. Mitt or whoever the front runner of the day is will have some tough going.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)The way to tell what we are up against is to notice how little coverage the OWS gets..
To notice how little coverage a guy like Bernie Sanders gets...
To notice how the there is no real intellectual coverage of constitutional issues in crisis...
These and many things.... that most will not notice... BECAUSE they are listening to what is being talked about and NOT what is NOT being talked about.
Cal33
(7,018 posts)half of our nation to vote for them.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Probably because he appears less insane than most of his rivals.