Paul censored in polls

[Kadayi]

Politics is boring. The revolution will fix this, or fux it up, whatever.

Plenty of other forums to spam up elsewhere, whilst you wait for this revolution everyone else is going to carry out. :dozey:


Sulks, good to see you smell a rat as well with all of this. It's quite disturbing how non democratic the whole thing is.

 

[Kadayi]

Result:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7201558.stm

Ron Paul finally gets some BBC coverage. Admittedly, he still not featured on the polls yet, but it's a start. I guess it does pay to write to the BBC Trust and News night after all.

 

[kathaksung]

There are these moments where kathaksung posts something which is totally on the money. There is apparently an opperation, whether it's tacit or intentional-conspiratorial, to quieten Ron Paul and big up idiots like Huckabee. If one examines their media spendings against the proportion of votes they recieved, one is led to the conclusion that someone is giving Huckabee a free lunch:

From the Times, Jan 10th, RE New Hampshire:

McCain
Votes received: 48,666
Media spending: $1.6m
Cost per vote: $40

Romney
Votes received: 75,202
Media spending: $8.9m
Cost per vote: $118

Giuliani
Votes received: 20,387
Media spending: $2.4m
Cost per vote: $117

Huckabee
Votes received: 26,760
Media spending: $175k
Cost per vote: $6

Hang on. 175 thousand? That's miniscule compared to any of the other Republicans and less than a fifth of Ron Paul's NH spendings on TV alone. It may be ironic for me to illustrate a point about apparent media blackout with a story about Ron Paul, but this was months ago; he is simply not being engaged by the media in any real capacity during election-times.

Ah, but Ron Paul isn't successful. He doesn't do well in polls, so the media don't pay attention, and so he doesn't do well in polls. Except that not only do we now see him being ignored over candidates doing worse than he does, but as far as I know Mike Huckabee also had deeply unimpressive ratings before the spotlight.

Then again, no wonder the cameras love him. He's charming. He's quirky. He's wacky and zany, lived in a trailer, lost a hundred pounds, plays in a rock band - and otherwise is just like Bush.

Thanks for reference. This is best illustration for a manipulated election in which I always said the election office and media are controlled by Feds.

McCain and Huckabee are the two most favorites of the Inside group. So even they have not much campaign fund, they got free propaganda by the media. Watch the newspaper and TV, the focus gathered on Huckabee, McCain and Romney. The propaganda is free. A special offer by media. Ron Paul got no such treatment. This is media manipulation.

McCain and Huckabee got the most money efficient vote. Why? Is it for their policy? No. McCain is famous for his "bomb, bomb Iran." A second Bush for more war. It is against mainstream opinion of Americans. As for Huckabee, people rarely know his policy except that he is a evangelical. How could they get so many votes? This is election rigging.