Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,FloydReports.com
America’s media is obsessed with every tick of every poll. The reason they cover polls is because they don’t want to cover ideas. Republicans should resist being sucked into this reality show mentality and focus instead on the candidate’s ideas.
Herman Cain used this to great effect in the Florida Straw Poll. His powerful speech concluded with a riff in which he talked about how the media had declared,“I can’t win.”He then empowered his audience by telling them,“You decide who wins,not the media.”Good advice from a candidate that is now watching this particular race from the frontlines.
The media uses polls to create self-fulfilling prophecies. Media organizations who are more interested in influencing the outcome of the race than they are providing unbiased coverage of the race use polls as an instrument of voter and donor manipulation. They manipulate the desire of us all to be with a winner.
We have been carefully watching Republican Party contests since the 1970′s,and there are some more interesting markers than polls that can help you understand what is really happening. Remember ideas have consequences with Republican primary voters.
First,straw polls don’t matter. If they did matter Pat Robertson would have been elected president in 1988. He won the straw poll in Iowa and surged in the media horse race as a result. His victory lead the New York Times to report:“For the second time in a year,the Rev. Pat Robertson has shaken Vice President Bush and his other rivals for the Republican Presidential nomination by winning a test of organizational strength.”
Herman Cain likewise has surged after his astounding victory in the Florida straw poll. The Cain victory has conservatives chanting “9-9-9″after his bold economic plan. Cain is calling for a total tax reform which would eliminate payroll taxes,the estate tax,investment taxes,and replace it all with a simple flat tax of 9 percent,coupled with a 9 percent consumption tax and a 9 percent corporate tax.
If Cain is going to win,it will be because of his bold ideas and vision. And with ideas Mr. Cain excels,and frankly leaves most of the other candidates wanting.
So our second point would be….
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America’s media is obsessed with every tick of every poll. The reason they cover polls is because they don’t want to cover ideas. Republicans should resist being sucked into this reality show mentality and focus instead on the candidate’s ideas.
Herman Cain used this to great effect in the Florida Straw Poll. His powerful speech concluded with a riff in which he talked about how the media had declared,“I can’t win.”He then empowered his audience by telling them,“You decide who wins,not the media.”Good advice from a candidate that is now watching this particular race from the frontlines.
The media uses polls to create self-fulfilling prophecies. Media organizations who are more interested in influencing the outcome of the race than they are providing unbiased coverage of the race use polls as an instrument of voter and donor manipulation. They manipulate the desire of us all to be with a winner.
We have been carefully watching Republican Party contests since the 1970′s,and there are some more interesting markers than polls that can help you understand what is really happening. Remember ideas have consequences with Republican primary voters.
First,straw polls don’t matter. If they did matter Pat Robertson would have been elected president in 1988. He won the straw poll in Iowa and surged in the media horse race as a result. His victory lead the New York Times to report:“For the second time in a year,the Rev. Pat Robertson has shaken Vice President Bush and his other rivals for the Republican Presidential nomination by winning a test of organizational strength.”
Herman Cain likewise has surged after his astounding victory in the Florida straw poll. The Cain victory has conservatives chanting “9-9-9″after his bold economic plan. Cain is calling for a total tax reform which would eliminate payroll taxes,the estate tax,investment taxes,and replace it all with a simple flat tax of 9 percent,coupled with a 9 percent consumption tax and a 9 percent corporate tax.
If Cain is going to win,it will be because of his bold ideas and vision. And with ideas Mr. Cain excels,and frankly leaves most of the other candidates wanting.
So our second point would be….
Read more.
An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
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