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[hendrix_child]

How media bias failed our voters. 
  Zogby Poll

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points
97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates
Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions
57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe

Comments

[modest_john]

And this is worse than blatantly stealing an election?

[hendrix_child]

You make it sound like I support Republicans/Bush/McCain.

My point was simply to show the bias in media. Agreed, I did protest against Obama, but I also protested McCain in the primaries.

I just wanted to show the how the media plays favorites. Hell, we can criticize Palin for things she didn't say (Africa not being a continent, not knowing the countries in NAFTA, SNL, etc.) but barely anyone has seen the clip of Obama saying "We've campaigned in 57 states, and I believe we just have one more to go." Palin's spending was investigated for months, but everyone brushed off fact Obama launched his campaign out of the basement of domestic terrorists. Or sat in Wright's church for 20 years, claiming him as best friend, counsel, and family.

I'm just looking for a little truth & fairness in media, and there's not one station out there that does it. That, and encourage people to do non-biased research on their own.

[modest_john]

Yeah, I dig.
I still don't know why you still have such a bug up your butt about all this, or why you place so much importance on a poll of only 512 people out of the nearly 67 million that voted for him.

Dem muthafuckas ain't reprazent alla us holmes.

[hendrix_child]

Agreed not all Obama supporters are political idiots. Or idiots period. But, that's what surveys are for; a microscale glance at percentages. Our media failed us. Knowing before the primaries were over that I was voting Ron Paul or third party, I'll say from an outside perspective that the media had a very clear bias. Things like Sara Palin's wardrobe, possible abuse of spending in office, McCain's inability to use a computer, or his personal wealth took waaaay more attention and questioning than Obama's voting record, associations with Rezko, Wright, and Ayers, flip-flops, or his verbal blunders.

[modest_john]

When has our media ever truly come through for us?
It's yet another corrupt establishment that is unlikely to ever be successfully reformed and purified to its core, essentially noble, ideology.
So what are any of us going to do about it other than bitch and moan on the grand distraction that is the internet?

You cannot escape from bias. Even the referenced poll on on the predominance of media bias in this past election is hopelessly biased.
Aaaahahahahahaha
Please excuse me, for now I feel I must go off to live in the woods indefinitely...

On another note, I miss you buddy. Only three weeks until I come home for winter break!
We have UNFINISHED BUSINESS to attend to. I think you know what I mean.

[hendrix_child]

I miss ya too. Just give me a call whenever, my winter break is gonna be pretty lax in terms of work and things. We most definitely have unfinished business.

[patquack]

Nobody stole anything. The electoral system is in place, for better or for worse. If you don't like it, vote for someone who doesn't like it and get rid of it.

[modest_john]

There are systems in place for executions as well, for better or for worse.
It doesn't change the fact that it is still murder.

If being elected to the highest office in the country without a majority of the public vote isn't stealing than I don't know what is.

[patquack]

The same thing applies. Vote for people who agree with you.

I wonder what Obama's opinion of the electoral system is.

[modest_john]

Electoral college reform wasn't exactly my highest priority issue in this election.

Your response was a bit lacking in the form of... well, an actual response.
Go vote on it? What specific ballot would you be referring to?

Obama ain't even need no damn electoral college, but that's what happens when you come out over 8.5 million votes ahead of the other guy...
A clear majority of the popular vote, not an outcome dependent on an outdated and unnecessary electoral system, should be the deciding factor in the elections of a truly democratic society. Regardless of what we have in place today, that is how I believe they should function.

As for reforming said system, good fucking luck to anybody that attempts it.
The inertia of political establishments in this day and age is a bit of an overwhelming force to any of us pseudo-political college assholes posting intellectual volleys on livejournal...
That includes you, me, and anybody who might ever happen to glance across this.

[modest_john]

Whoops, that was me.