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Originally Posted by Thomas
Red, I'm sorry but while this was certainly a FACTOR, why can't anyone admit the R party is a damn mess? And lets be honest, the conservative right has it's media bias just as well. Look at all the articles posted here over the last few months.
I said it on election night; If the party can't beat THIS guy? You're running the wrong candidate.
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Neither party is worth a shit.
With that said, it didn't matter what Romney did or said. EVERYTHING any person associated with the R party did or said was attributed directly to him. Some dumbass says that pregnancy from rape is what God intends... it is reported as if Romney said it himself. The media did everything in it's power to completely bombard the public with anti-Romney information. What's worse is they did it under the guise of reporting the news. The same does NOT happen on the left. Hell, even the things the VP says are simply dismissed. You have complete assholes on the left as well as those on the right. The difference is that when it is on the right, it is portrayed against everybody. When it is the left, it is just the individual.
The only way that a person ever got a fair perspective of Romney is if they went actvely searching for it and made up your own mind based on multiple sources. The average person simply isn't going to do that. If any election in the last 80 years was important to the economy, it was this one, yet the media focused 100% on abortion and birth control. Why is that? The answer is simple. They didn't want to focus on the economy because that would mean they had to admit their hero sucked a big donkey dick. Why is it that you never heard that there are 47 million people on food stamps. 47 f*cking million people... the COMBINED population of the 50 largest cities in this country on food stamps. Do you think the average voter could tell you the number of people on food stamps? Why do you think the media never felt the need to report on the personal wealth of the middle class going down? Why did they not tell about the skyrocketing unemployment of women? Why did they continuously say that obama had "created 5 million jobs" and yet never include that many more than that had been lost? Why was the debt and deficit never an issue? Why was it not an issue that we have no budget? Why was it repeatedly reported that Romney had "no plan" while at the same time omitting that even through today, obama doesn't have any plan whatsoever? ETC ETC ETC. The list goes on and on.
The answer is simple... they didn't want to because it would have been bad for obama for the facts and numbers to be out there on a large scale. The media quite simply pushed every major issue under the table and made this election about the trivial shit. They made it about ideals rather than facts and they portrayed obama as a hero and Romney as evil. Plain and simple.
The right has exactly 1 large market source leaning it's way. Fox. EVERY other outlet including ALL of the mainstream markets are flat out undeniable left.
The only thing that the casual voter heard through this election cycle is that obama is great and that Romney is and evil rich white guy.
Look at your comment, "If the party can't beat THIS guy..." What you fail to see is that the majority of the country doesn't see obama as "THIS guy". They see him as wonderful, quite simply because that is what they hear nonstop.
Look at the OP of this thread. Romney WON the independent vote. Among those who actually paid attention and vote on issues rather than party lines, among those who chose to make up their own minds, he WON, and by a sizable margin.