Backlash!
Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired of hearing about him, a poll says.With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they're hearing too much about the Democratic candidate, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just 26 percent said the same about his Republican rival, John McCain.
Obama, the 47-year-old Illinois senator who would become the first black president, has dominated political news coverage much of the year. According to an ongoing Pew study, Obama has appeared in more news stories this year and more people say they have heard more about him than McCain, the longtime Arizona senator who also ran for president in 2000.
Two-thirds of Republicans and about half of independents said they've heard too much about Obama, as did a third of Democrats, a significant number.
At the same time, nearly four in 10 said they've been hearing too little about McCain — about four times the number who said so about Obama. About half of Republicans, four in 10 independents and even a quarter of Democrats said they've not heard enough about the GOP candidate.
The poll was conducted from Aug. 1-4 and involved telephone interviews with 1,004 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
This says a whole lot about the media and how they may, in their own special way actually have contributed more to the demise of the Obama candidacy than any gaffe or Republican "dirty trick" could have ever done. Good work guys!
Labels: Media Bias, Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain
posted by The Lady Logician at
6:55 PM
1 Comments:
Wow, something we agree upon!
The press chases the story, and it's a business to them, so I give them a pass. But as citizens we need to remain aware of this. They aren't the "watchdogs of Democracy" they often get touted as (the journalists may be, but the media organizations they work for are not by a far cry).
The more we understand the media is not "liberal" or "conservative" but rather "selling ads and papers" the better off we are. It's up to us to seek out real fact and information if we wish to stay informed.
Too many take their information hook, line and sinker from Limbaugh or Olbermann, without acknowledging that these people are more entertainers (and entertaining they are!) than informers.
The information is out there, always. Sometimes you just have to dig.
Although I would also wager that McCain benefits from this as well. If he were to receive the focus from the media that Obama has, he would fall flat. His flip-flopping and poor grasp on the new media works against him each time he receives the spotlight (evidenced just yesterday in his admission that Obama's statements on tire pressure and vehicle maintenance, endorsed by both the DOE and the American Automobile Association, were in fact, factual... after he had allowed his campaign to act otherwise).
Conversely, we also must get over our shock and awe that our politicians act like politicians. Again, the facts are out there, and we should do more than watch the campaign ads and the cable news channels before we cast a vote.
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