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Reuters tells us:
As Jon Stewart winds down his 19-year stint as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, he and Stephen Colbert sit at the peak of American punditry despite their left-leaning view of life, the universe and everything.
In an era of diffused voices and divided politics, they are well known, widely admired, and speak to Americans in ways that no one else does, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
This poll tracks 10 different pundits. Split evenly between conservative and liberal. It is also worth noting that four of the five on the liberal side are comedians, while none of the conservative pundits are trained to tell jokes.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday May 11 2015, @04:25PM
You vote DOES matter. Billions are at stake to get your vote. We should have an election every year (not just a perpetual campaign). Think of the advertisers' children!
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Monday May 11 2015, @06:23PM
Well, no. Your vote is only a slice of those 30 billion dollars. Ignroing the notion of "battleground" states and districts, your vote is worth about $200.
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Monday May 11 2015, @07:53PM
You numbers are more flawed than you think.
PR strategy is based around maintaining the base and swinging the swing voters. Due to the blatantly corrupt way america tallies votes, this is all about battleground states. Most of the money goes there and most of the money is to swing the swingers.
So in summers: the swingers in the swing states get the most pounding...
(Score: 2, Disagree) by ikanreed on Monday May 11 2015, @08:46PM
Okay, so, like, I explicitly acknowledged that important distinction. I get why numbers are wrong. Why are they "wronger than I think"?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Mr Big in the Pants on Monday May 11 2015, @09:28PM
a) You gave a bogus figure and give the reason its bogus.
b) I point out that PR campaigns focus on swing voters in swing states specifically.
Conclusion: You were wronger than this sentence and your original admission of wrongedness.
The fact that I have to explain this makes your quotes seem pretty stupid now, huh?
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Mr Big in the Pants on Monday May 11 2015, @10:30PM
You can mod it flamebait all you want, I will still be right.
And my karma is astronomical so mark this one down also...
Ironically you marked it flamebait but mine is not the burn.
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Tuesday May 12 2015, @04:54AM
And this one is still true also...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Monday May 11 2015, @06:24PM
Your vote DOES matter. Billions are at stake to get your vote. We should have an election every year (not just a perpetual campaign). Think of the advertisers' children!
In the U.S., voter turnout has not, at least since 1948, been over 65% of eligible voters. An election in which in which the turnout reached 90-95%, regardless of who won, would send shock waves through the system and might actually get politicians paying attention to the people rather than just the dollars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:26AM
Not if it was a 50:50 split between R and D.