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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hiE-7-7YbMg-msHxLrN2b_g8RF7gD93VQU481
An interesting read about the coverage of the candidates. Two things jump out at me, one I expected to hear:
And, that makes sense to me. As a candidate take a lead there will be more positive press about them and as they fall behind there will be more negative press.
However, the second thing to jump out at me I did not expect to see but had started to notice on my own a few weeks back:
And, to explain further- I have noticed a similar pattern with McCain and Hillary in their campaign's against Obama. Neither one could settle on a message or slogan to use against his Change banner. Both used Experience as their keystone argument, and both abandoned it quickly to take up Change and then switched to negative attacks as their talking points.
And, both have complained about unfair coverage of the media.
So, my question here is how much do you feel the media reporting that someone is behind or ahead affects those trends?
And, to phrase it a different way in the trend of media coverage: Would John McCain be losing if we weren't being told he was losing?
An interesting read about the coverage of the candidates. Two things jump out at me, one I expected to hear:
McCain's poll numbers have been sinking. As a result, many of the stories about him are about why his poll numbers are sinking — and how whatever he says or does is an attempt to stop his poll numbers from sinking,
And, that makes sense to me. As a candidate take a lead there will be more positive press about them and as they fall behind there will be more negative press.
However, the second thing to jump out at me I did not expect to see but had started to notice on my own a few weeks back:
McCain's negative coverage closely tracks the tone of Democrat Al Gore's during the 2000 campaign, he said.A similar thing happened during the latter stages of Hillary Clinton's campaign against Obama,
And, to explain further- I have noticed a similar pattern with McCain and Hillary in their campaign's against Obama. Neither one could settle on a message or slogan to use against his Change banner. Both used Experience as their keystone argument, and both abandoned it quickly to take up Change and then switched to negative attacks as their talking points.
And, both have complained about unfair coverage of the media.
So, my question here is how much do you feel the media reporting that someone is behind or ahead affects those trends?
And, to phrase it a different way in the trend of media coverage: Would John McCain be losing if we weren't being told he was losing?