From John Stark
Despite Rick Santorum’s primary victories, the schedule and the delegate-assignment format of the remaining primaries give Mitt Romney every reason to be optimistic.
So says Aaron Blake writing on the Washington Post politics blog.
Blake notes that less than half the total delegates have been assigned so far, and if Romney runs as well as expected in California and New York, he may be able to reach the 1,144 delegates he needs for the nomination by early June, in the California primary.
In most of the remaining state primaries, delegates will be awarded on a prop0rtional basis, instead of in a winner-take-all format that makes victories more decisive, Blake notes.
“….Whatever the intent of the media’s repetition of Mitt’s “inevitability” mantra, the effect is to discourage support for Santorum, to demoralize conservatives by telling them that the fight for the Republican nomination is already over, and to force them into a premature acquiescence in the putative triumph of Romney, despite the fact that this allegedly more electable candidate has so far gotten less than 40 percent of the vote in GOP primaries and caucuses. If you suspect that the intent of this demoralizing message is the same as the effect, you are certainly not alone. Nor are you alone if you remain determined to resist the media’s demand for an unconditional surrender to Romney…..
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/26/the-politics-of-demoralization
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
The “media” trying collectively to predetermine outcomes of everything from primaries to presidential elections is very similar to sasquatches.
There are people who will swear that both are real, yet no one has ever captured either on film.
I mean, if there is a conspiracy, there’d have to be meetings, discussions, emails etc., right?
Maybe one of the political bloggers will enlighten us all and finally reveal where, or how, these meetings take place and slow down the laughter from us non-believers..
Worst, lsomething like this;
“No one who has lived through the last forty years can be surprised when a New York Times reporter reveals his contempt for those who don’t share his cultural biases; especially, against those like me who live in the “middle places.” But when Times reporter David Carr blurted out that “middle places” like Kansas and Missouri are the land of “the low-sloping foreheads,” even the jaded took notice…
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/06/029329.php
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Or this;
“….According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists…
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/#ixzz1qHZLGCFM
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
OH, L@@K!!!
BigFoot.
“…The latest revelations from Journo-list are deeply depressing to me. What’s depressing is the way in which liberal journalists are not responding to events in order to find out the truth, but playing strategic games to cover or not cover events and controversies in order to win a media/political war.
The far right is right on this: this collusion is corruption. It is no less corrupt than the comically propagandistic Fox News and the lock-step orthodoxy on the partisan right in journalism – but it is nonetheless corrupt. Having a private journalistic list-serv to debate, bring issues to general attention, notice new facts seems pretty innocuous to me. But this was an attempt to corral press coverage and skew it to a particular outcome….
Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/roddreher/2010/07/the-outrageous-journolist-scandal.html#ixzz1qKcTMsXB
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!