Off-Year Elections and the Media...

[CherokeeDem]

Watching MSNBC today (I can't abide CNN and well...you know about the "other" cable news group), I am beginning to wonder if any of them understand politics and how voters view off year elections. I know they do; they just prefer to make it up as they go.

I have about 30 years of experience in grassroots Democratic politics and I have never seen any off year election attract the "new and excited" voter from a Presidential election year, especially the independent voter. Of course there will be some who will get the bug and become engaged in the process but they are few and far between. 2008 was an exceptional year, in addition to coming off of 8 years of destruction to this country, the Constitution, and the rest of the world, millions of people who had never felt they had voice in their future suddenly felt empowered and participated. These are not the people who normally vote in off-year elections and certainly not with the choices they were given.

For Chuck Todd, et all, to disregard that fact and to purport that these races were a referendum on President Obama is so disingenuous and so contrived. Let's stir up some news that isn't news. The one race that did show the true state of the nation was the NY-23. The voters there turned their back on the Palin crazies and put a Democrat in seat that had not gone D for over 100 years. The press doesn't want to talk about this as a referendum on Palin and the nut-case division of the Republican party. More fun to go after Obama.

I truly believe with the exception of Rachel Maddow and Keith Obermann, there is no truth to be reported in the press. I know we've all known that for a long time but it just gets so frustrating. For once, I wish they would put the correct spin on their reporting.

Sorry, I am venting but the press just need to stop trying to make news and simply report it.

[defendandprotect]

1. Wow ... we lost NJ Governship and Maine -- Astonishingly poor pereformance by Dems . .. !!

Granted Corzine didn't deserve to be in the race --
but neither did Christie --

And to have lost the Maine vote on homosexual marriage!!????

We still have two wars of imperialism going on -- perpetual wars for profit --
largely still manned with corporate military --
Why are Democrats still funding these wars?

Where is MEDICARE FOR ALL?

[defendandprotect]

2. We have a corporate press with interests quite different from yours . . .

and using our airwaves to drench viewers in right wing propaganda --

We need to return to Fairness in Broadcasting Doctrine which stood for 60 years!

Basically what we've done since then is license a lot of Hitlers to spew right wing

hatred to the public!