Re: How does ignoring Republican Presidential candidates help the election?

Did you even know that there were 250 announced candidates for President?

No?  Check it out at 
http://www.vote-smart.org/election_president_search.php?type=alpha

There simply has to be a better way to get out info on potential 
Presidential candidates.

jim

"jim" <jim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> We have a serious problem (in the US) with biased television coverage of

> only the candidate that the television stations want to promote.
>
> Most of America doesn't even get to hear from 50% of the field of 
> qualified, listed candidates.
>
> Worse yet, fake news outlets like Fox news deliberately misrepresent the

> candidates making some look like they are the pack leaders when they are

> actually losing ground.
>
> Take Ron Paul for instance (although he is not the only instance).  Look

> at what Faux News did in re****ting the Nevada results - 
>
http://www.eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=962&title=Ron_Paul___Faux_News_Results
.
>
> It is a fact that presidential candidates NOT in the news have NO chance

> of winning in the United States simply because so many Americans depend
on 
> the nightly news and cable news shows to distill the thousands of daily 
> stories down to what impacts them.
>
> To make a fair and just run of the Presidential elections, and to ensure

> that people get to hear from and choose from among ALL qualified 
> Presidential candidates (regardless of their personal wealth or ability
to 
> buy television time) we must either (a) pass more laws governing fair
time 
> given to Presidential candiadtes to give each equal time on air or (b) 
> have a government cable channel devoted to interviewing and exposing the

> candidates to the people.
>
> How can we ever get the best person (man/woman/black/white/other) when
we 
> don't even get to hear their ideas, beliefs and opinions - much less
when 
> supposed "News" outlets like Faux News misrepresent results by carefully

> choosing who they show and how to American voters?
>
> jim
>