On MSNBC, Politico's Hearn repeats media myth that only some voters are "values voters"

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:39 PM
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On MSNBC, Politico's Hearn repeats media myth that only some voters are "values voters"

Summary: On MSNBC's Tucker, the Politico's Josephine Hearn stated that if Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee wins the Iowa caucuses, "I think that's very damaging to Mitt Romney, because they're both going after values voters. So they're both trolling in the same areas." Hearn's use of the label "values voters" to characterize the subset of voters being targeted by Huckabee and Romney advanced the myth that this group of voters is the only political constituency that votes its "values."

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The Magistrate

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:53 PM
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1. 'Politico', My Friend, Is Just A Gussied-Up 'Talon News'....

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monmouth

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:56 PM
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2. I like her reference to "trolling"...don't know why, just do....lol.

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Mike Daniels

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Thu Nov-15-07 04:28 PM
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3. The Republican party has basically co-opted "family values" for their own

Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 04:28 PM by Mike Daniels

so it's not a stretch for her to use the term "values voters" to refer to the target market for Romney or Huckabee.

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