Herman Cain proves that the MEDIA is choosing the frontrunners
By Taskr36
@Taskr36 (13963)
United States
October 21, 2011 12:22pm CST
Has anyone noticed how all it took was ONE win, in ONE poll, for Herman Cain to get called a frontrunner by the media, get mountains of media attention, and subsequently become the frontrunner? The media has been playing voters like a fiddle during the primaries.
Romney was a frontrunner before the primaries even started, everyone knows that because he came in second in 2008. The media wanted another frontrunner, so as soon as Bachmann didn't completely embarrass herself in a debate, they gave her free publicity. Then, she won ONE tiny little poll, and suddenly they insisted she was a frontrunner. They even managed to get her ranked pretty high for a while before they realized she didn't get good enough ratings so they looked for another person to call a frontrunner.
Enter Rick Perry. They started including him in polls, convincing people he was a frontrunner, saying how he was a gamechanger, bla bla bla. That worked until we all saw him in a few debates. So came the next quest for a more exciting frontrunner, someone who would really get people to watch the news. Herman Cain was the lucky recipient of that. Not only is he the frontrunner now, but now HE is the one leading Obama in the polls just as Perry and Romney did before him.
Personally I wish people could just study the candidates, listen to them, and make a decision based on the candidate, not the media.
In case some of you think that one poll win is enough to make you a front runner, please take a look at who won all these polls. You'll notice he's NEVER been called a front-runner by any media outlet. Three of these polls were in the last 2 months and yet haven't made the media treat him as a front-runner.
http://news.yahoo.com/ron-paul-wins-straw-poll-cain-2nd-193226764.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44565575/ns/politics-decision_2012/t/ron-paul-wins-gop-california-straw-poll/#.TqGpznLEPAU
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/ron-paul-wins-conference-straw-poll-to-no-ones-surprise/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/18/us-usa-campaign-poll-idUSTRE75H1YX20110618
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2012/tk-wins-cpac-straw-poll-1.html
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@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
23 Oct 11
Actually, yes, the media does kind of choose who the front runners are. Thing is, I don't like any of the people who are running for the Republican Party right now. It's such a shame that the governor of New Jersey didn't decide to run because I thought that he would have been an excellent candidates, but that is not going to happen now.
I know that most of my friends are rather disappointed in the candidates for the GOP right now. I hope Rick Perry doesn't get nominated. If he does, then I will really think ill of the people in the Republican Party.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
22 Oct 11
Romney is their guy on the Republican ticket... but for the incompetent press and the leadership of the RNC. Anything positive you hear about any other candidate is to bolster them, so they can justify taking pot shots at them.
Why is Romney the favorite of the incompetent press? Because their already to pounce on him once he gets the nomination.
Why is he the favorite of the RNC leadership? Because it's "his turn".
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@Adoniah (7512)
• United States
21 Oct 11
How true...
Another thing I would like to add here. Why would the media be for someone who is going to destroy the elderly with his 999 tax code...
? The sales tax that he is STILL proposing would be on top of regular sales tax...That would make it 18% around where I live...
Another thing I would like to add here. Why would the media be for someone who is going to destroy the elderly with his 999 tax code...? The sales tax that he is STILL proposing would be on top of regular sales tax...That would make it 18% around where I live...1 person likes this
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
21 Oct 11
You're right, and they influence the way people vote. I would like to see a campaign that starts in September of the election year. No television coverage, no radio coverage, no face time. Just written proposals by the candidates. People can research their past and careers, read their views and make a decision. No voting for the most eloquent speaker (look where that got us!) or the one who is the most attractive physically. No bickering back and forth, just honest declarations of policy and ideas on how to run the country.
Won't happen, of course, but I believe we'd get better public officials. And people would be forced to read and analyze instead of staring mindlessly at a television screen and listening to the media as they manipulate public opinion. Plus, a SHORT campaign!
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