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posted by martyb on Monday March 11 2019, @10:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-line-up-the-sights-on-your-toe-and-squeeeeeeze dept.

Here in the U.S., the presidential election season, like Christmas, seems to start earlier and earlier each time.

In keeping with this, the Democratic National Committee is making waves by announcing that it will exclude Fox News, which has the largest viewership of the major cable news networks by a considerable margin, from debate coverage of DNC presidential candidates.

Thomas Lifson outlines a number of reasons this may not be a good move.

One is that from a historical and strategy perspective:

Presidential debates inevitably favor the challengers. Trump can push them in that direction by agreeing to debates only if Fox News is included. That forces them to either accept FNC or have no debates at all. If they accept, that makes FNC the debate worth watching. The rest are discredited as Democrat "safe spaces,"

And it appears he has pounced and done exactly that from his twitter account:

Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!

Really all either party has to do is A) not be crazy and/or B) keep their idiot mouths shut to win.

Neither of these seems to be in the cards dealt to either side, so it should be a heck of a ride.


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  • (Score: 3, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday March 11 2019, @05:46PM (4 children)

    Rasmussen says 49% approval, 50% disapproval. His approval alone is not the metric you need to be looking at though. You don't technically need any approval at all. You just have to suck ever so slightly less than whoever is running against you. That's going to be an astoundingly difficult hurdle for anyone in congress to overcome, given that their approval ratings are always so far underground that someone should call MSHA.

    Also, you do realize that we were never one citizen, one vote, yes? By deliberate design. The founding fathers knew exactly what kind of fucked up oppression that would lead to. Exactly the kind you're bitching about not being able to enact.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:02PM (#812803)

    Trooooolololol

    This is b.e.a.utiful. More SUN! MOAR MELTIIIINNGGG!!!!

  • (Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Tuesday March 12 2019, @01:19PM (2 children)

    by Nobuddy (1626) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @01:19PM (#813223)

    Rasmussen us useless. They conduct polls by land line only. The only people that still have land lines are the elderly. A very flawed poll for national statistics. Useful only for gathering the stats of old people.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 12 2019, @01:55PM (1 child)

      You know that 40-45% of the nation still have land lines, yes? You're either young enough to see anyone over thirty as old or are having echo chamber issues.

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      • (Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Monday March 18 2019, @03:02PM

        by Nobuddy (1626) on Monday March 18 2019, @03:02PM (#816421)

        So your response is no one under 50 matters in polling? All you do is verify my point.