Coca-Cola said:
mrstickball said:
Coca-Cola said:
MrBubbles said:
the media stops completely ignoring ron paul...his numbers shoot up. who would have suspected?! |
The media is now paying attention and his numbers will go down.
CNN is pushing the guy off their show - well, he walked out. not good. I thought CNN would like this guy more than other Republican candidates.
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Nope. Romney is their messiah, as he is the most center-left politician on the Republican ticket.
Comparatively, Ron Paul is for limited government which the media is not a great fan of. The media has never given ample time to small-government politicians, including Ron Paul. Additiionally, RP is a major threat to the right-left dichotomy which the media loves to play off of. Liberals and conservatives like him, thus making him a threat to the status quo. He's the only guy that I see being discussed by people of all parties.
If RP wins Iowa, I think there will be a more favorable reaction in the rest of the states. I think if he has a viable shot, your going to see a lot of people switch from D to R to vote for RP, and others will come out of the woodwork. Most people I know want RP to win, but are leery about his chances. A win in Iowa would remove those fears, hopefully giving him a better chance in other states.
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I know CNN likes Romney cause he is most liberal of the Rebpulicans, so I would think they would want Ron Paul to win cause he has no chance against Obama. Or maybe he does, and the media is afraid?
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Paul has a much better chance against Obama. Paul would get a decent bit of the conservative vote and the liberal, anti-war and/or pro-pot groups. Comparatively, Romney has a small slice of independents and republicans. Romney will get torn down like no tomorrow if he's the GOP nominee - Romneycare, governor of Massachusettes, mormon, ect. The media knows this and can run a lot of negative news on him. If by some reason he won, then the political landscape would change very little.
I think Paul is so far left of field, if he really got prime-time coverage, they wouldn't know what to do with him, and are afraid of that. He'd give air to a different line of thinking well outside that of what traditional Republicans and Democrats have said for the past ~20 years during the election cycle.
