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EatingPie @ Oct 2nd 2008 11:52PM

This was a way for CNN to tell us what to think. Instead of us deciding for ourselves, these little pie charts make sure we KNOW who is winning... er... who THEY SAY is winning.

Biden was obviously more experienced and better at debating. But there were times Palin did better, and the numbers never changed at those points.

The Media is so hell-bent on making sure we vote Obama, they'll pull out any trick in the book. It's a pretty sad commentary on the state of politics and the media.

-Pie

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Spiza @ Oct 3rd 2008 1:29AM

The tax man cometh. Here comes more Big Government. I hope I get to vote for a President at some point in my life instead of voting against the other guy.

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Money Mike @ Oct 3rd 2008 3:08PM

"The Media is so hell-bent on making sure we vote Obama, they'll pull out any trick in the book. It's a pretty sad commentary on the state of politics and the media."

Yeah, I agree that most of what we see in the media seems to favor Obama, but don't you think that could just be a sign that most people in this country feel the same? Do you think that most Americans are so persuadable that whomever the media tells them to vote for really has a better chance winning? I watch Fox News a lot and I constantly hear people on that network complaining about "media bias" and I just can't understand why nobody wants to admit that THEY ARE PART OF THE MEDIA?!?!?! (I'm sorry - this complaint is for everyone in the media - not just Fox News... and this is really a separate discussion.) The point I'm trying to make is that I constantly hear about "media bias" and I'm really starting to think that if Obama wins this election in November, these same people are actually going to complain that the public was swayed by "the media" - and completely ignore the concept that Americans may just be in favor of Obama on their own (or just may be fed up with how Republicans have been running this country for the last eight years and don't want to risk having the next four be exactly the same).

Personally, I think most Americans who are voting are smart enough to make their own decisions. Also, keep in mind that most Americans hate to see the media bashing someone unfairly, so if their is a media bias, that could very well be a positive for Republicans.

On a separate note, I just wish we could get someone in there who isn't a member of either party. A two-party system just doesn't seem fair to me, which is why I could never be a member of either one.

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EatingPie @ Oct 3rd 2008 7:52PM

"Yeah, I agree that most of what we see in the media seems to favor Obama, but don't you think that could just be a sign that most people in this country feel the same?"

No, to be honest I don't. The media is *generally* liberal, and they desperately want a Democrat as President again. They are pushing for this as hard as they can, well beyond the point of ethics IMHO.

OTOH, it is certainly possible that people in the country feel the same way. The Bush administration has an extremely low rating right now, and that reflects on Republicans at large as well. This, however, is still the difference between people deciding for themselves what they believe, as opposed to be *told* what they should believe, over and over again by the media in their attempt to *influence* the vote.

-Pie

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