Reply #29: Perhaps the worst thing the media did was to anoint Dean [View All]

[MurikanDemocrat]

the front runner for most of the last year. If any one of the candidates benefited from a lot of whoring press in the last year it was Dean. Dean was just ASSUMED by the media to be the front runner. I never understood it myself.

Well guess what. The public isn't quite as easily programmed as you like to assume they are, because they didn't drink the Kool Aid. As the time for primaries got closer and voters started taking up close look at candidates to make up their OWN minds, Deans numbers started dropping. That's a fact.

It happened over a matter of weeks leading up to IA and NH. I was watching. Kerry's and Edwards were rising as Deans were dropping. Then Dean started going negative with Gephardt. Gephardt took the bait and bit back. Voters don't care for that - and his numbers got worse. Both of them got their butts handed to them in the IA primary.

The media didn't cause Deans fall. Dean did. The media didn't cause Kerry's rise. The voters did.

Dean continues on the path of negative attacks and mud slinging on the other candidates. Voters don't like it! So they don't vote for him. Not to mention the poor decisions that kept him out of the primaries last night. The media did not cause these things. Dean did.