September 5th 2008
Media Bias #49
Barely
Politico has a new feature, Final Score, which will provide a day-by-day ranking of who won in that day’s campaigning. Sounds like fun. And a huge liberal cesspool if the first day is any indication. Here’s the story’s synopsis of McCain’s day:
John McCain hit the trail today together with his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for the first time as national polls showed a convention bounce that had him nearly even with Barack Obama.
He also rode a wave of positive press after a convention speech that more viewers tuned into that did to Obama’s much-hyped and (until McCain’s) record-setting address—and nearly as many tuned in to hear Palin speak the night before.
Meanwhile, independent voters who less than a week ago were evenly split as to whether she helped or hindered the ticket now are more than twice as likely to see her as an asset than a liability.
All three network newscasts did packages on McCain first, Obama second, with most of the latter focusing on the Democrat’s economic message.
Wow! A heck of a day. Meanwhile in the Barack barracks:
The Obama campaign had said it planned to “unveil Senator Obama’s plan to help fight Cancer”—timely because of a Friday night “Stand Up to Cancer” special airing simultaneously on all three networks. But the plan got so little attention that when we asked officials on the other side about it, they didn’t know it had been released.
In a year where the fundamentals overwhelmingly favor Democrats, McCain still trails in key states, but the playing field no longer seems so tilted. He’s drawing much larger crowds (10,000 in Macomb County, Mich. today) than he had been—and there’s a palpable sense of enthusiasm amongst a base that been, until the addition of Palin to the ticket, notably unenthused and at times undersized.
The upside for Obama may be the bad economic news—84,000 jobs were lost in August, and the unemployment rate reached a five-year high of 6.1 percent according to the latest Labor Department figures, and Obama and other Dems seized on the numbers to link McCain, whose repeatedly admitted to knowing less than he should about economics, with the unpopular Republican president.
And the headline for this one-on-one? McCain Wins Day – Barely. Can I see the judge’s score cards, please?
Hat-tip: Jim
Media Bias 2008 covers pro-Obama media bias in the presidential campaign. Items are listed from most recent to oldest; the numbering reflects this and is not a ranking. Send Media Bias 2008 examples via “comments”‘ below, or to email2laer [@] yahoo [dot] com.
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