The 2016 Presidential Election: the Media Determines Which Candidates Are Important and Which Candidates Are Not Important Based upon Their Own Biases?

Darrell Castle/Scott Bradley: Constitution Party President/Vice President candidate

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Chad Koppie: Constitution Party US Senate Candidate for Illinois

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Darryl Glenn: Republican Party US Senate Candidate for Colorado

Website: http://www.electdarrylglenn.com/

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Petition: STOP MASS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

http://americansecurity-coalition.com/stop-mass-illegal-immigration.aspx?pid=0823a

Petition: Stop Amnesty International’s Pro-Abortion Attack on Sovereign Nations

http://www.citizengo.org/en/lf/36812-time-defund-amnesty-intl-pushing-abortion-small-countries?dr=4611658::7f7bb99f165b41387e6b94ba4e27cb2f&utm_source=email&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RobE56Z3pZbVJsTVdSayIsInQiOiJYbTVMeWs1dVFIYjFwXC9CT3Z4cUJrUDY4MVo0a1c4ak9HdStCWHpSZFVWS3J0ZGlKeTZ1c25tWVVlTmllZ2J4anJBOVBsOUljY1liWklFYmd3Uk9iZ05SQWE4VWorS3pCbDlkelJpeG5uMGM9In0%3D

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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2016/09/06/mrc-study-challengers-clinton-and-trump-get-just-003-tv-news-airtime

“MRC [Media Research Center] Study: Challengers to Clinton and Trump Get Just 0.03% of TV News Airtime
By Rich Noyes | September 6, 2016

Not since Ross Perot in 1996 has a third-party presidential candidate polled as strongly as Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson is right now—he’s currently averaging more than eight percent, according to RealClearPolitics. At the same time, other polls show record levels of voter disapproval for the Democratic and Republican nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

In spite of this, the broadcast network evening newscasts are essentially blacking out the existence of alternatives to Clinton and Trump—a potentially fatal blow to candidates who are required to average 15 percent support to qualify for the upcoming presidential debates [Why is 15 percent some magical cut-off point? There are THREE third Party candidates who are on the ballot in at least twenty States. The Republicans had 17 Presidential candidates and all of them were included in either the main debate or a supplement debate in the beginning. When a majority of the voters are dissatisfied with the two candidates from the major parties, it seems the three other candidates should be given a voice nationally!].

MRC analysts examined all 1,713 campaign stories on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from January 1 through August 31 (1,472 full reports, 104 brief items and an additional 137 stories on other topics that included some discussion of the campaign or candidates).

Not surprisingly, Trump has drawn most of the attention: 1,773 minutes of evening news airtime during the first eight months of the year, far ahead of Clinton’s 1,020 minutes of coverage. Since the primaries ended on June 7, the networks’ focus has stayed on Trump, who received 705 minutes of coverage—much of it about various controversies—vs. 437 minutes for Clinton [With very little time on her controversies?].

But compare those totals to the third party or independent candidates: Thus far in 2016, [Gary] Johnson [Libertarian Party] has received a mere 11 seconds of evening news coverage—just a single sentence on the NBC Nightly News as he was formally nominated back in May. That means Clinton has received more than 5,000 times more coverage than Johnson, while Donald Trump garnered nearly 10,000 times more evening news airtime than his Libertarian challenger.

To date, neither ABC nor CBS has mentioned Johnson’s candidacy on their evening newscasts, although ABC has hosted him on This Week, and he’s been discussed on CBS’s Face the Nation and CBS This Morning.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein has fared even worse, drawing a paltry three seconds of discussion in August on the NBC Nightly News. Stein’s name wasn’t even mentioned; in his report, NBC’s Jacob Soboroff included the response of a voter in Iowa to the question of whether she supported Clinton or Trump.

‘I don’t want either one of them,’ the woman shot back. ‘I’d have to go Green.’

While Stein was a guest on ABC’s This Week, like Johnson, ABC and CBS evening news viewers have yet to hear about her candidacy.

The story is similar for conservative independent Evan McMullin, who hopes to pull votes from Republicans fiercely opposed to Donald Trump. When he launched his candidacy in early August, ABC’s World News Tonight devoted 32 seconds of a larger campaign segment to McMullin [According to http://www.politics1.com/p2016.htm, he is NOT on the ballot in 20 States.].

Reporter Tom Llamas suggested he was a spoiler: ‘What do you say to Republicans who support Trump, who say a vote for you is gonna be a vote for Hillary Clinton?’ McMullin replied that Trump had spoiled his own candidacy: ‘He’s alienated broad swaths of our population. Donald Trump cannot win.’

The third party possibility that drew the most attention this year was former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg [MONEY!] primary season flirtation with a possible independent challenge drew roughly eight minutes of evening news airtime—on all three networks—before he opted not to run [If he had decided to run, he would have continued to receive more attention than other third party candidates. The media decides what is news and what is not! What is viewed and what is not! And the media follows its own biases! Why we need MORE competition in the media as well as more competition in politics!].

Writer David French, whose name was put forward as a potential conservative independent candidate before McMullin, garnered 32 seconds of airtime on ABC’s World News Tonight. Constitution Party candidate Darrell Castle, who is on the ballot in 29 states, [Counting write-ins?] has received zero coverage from the Big Three evening newscasts. [Their anti-conservatives bias!!!]

There’s been some coverage of these candidates on cable news (CNN has hosted town halls for Johnson and Stein, for example [But NOT for Darrell Castle? Their anti-conservatives bias?]), but the totals pale in comparison to the coverage of Trump and Clinton. And entrepreneurial voters who want to learn more about these candidates can get additional information from alternative news sources, social media and/or the candidates’ own Web sites [If they know they are running!].

But it’s the day-to-day mass media coverage that validates candidates in the eyes of most voters. During his independent run in 1992, Ross Perot received enough media coverage to be seen as a real competitor to George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and as a result garnered enough public support to win a slot in the presidential debates. On Election Day, Perot won nearly 19 percent of the vote, the best showing by an alternative candidate since ex-President Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Bull Moose ticket in 1912.

Without significant media coverage, most voters probably won’t even consider the alternative candidates of 2016, no matter how dissatisfied they are with the two major party nominees.”

Plus, the voters have been fed the lie that third parties do not make a difference. Yet, Ross Perot, who ran in both 1992 and 1996, did make a difference. According to reports I’ve read, he ran in 1992 specifically to defeat fellow Texan George H. W. Bush. That was accomplished. Whether or not President Bush would have lost without Ross Perot in the race, we do not know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1992

“Perot's campaign took 18.9% of the vote, drawing support from both sides and finishing second in Maine and Utah. This was noted for being the strongest vote share of a third-party candidate since 1912, though he did not obtain any electoral votes [Meaning that he did not actually win in any specific State].

Percentage of popular vote: Bill Clinton 43.0%, George H. W. Bush 37.4%, Ross Perot 18.9%.”

Furthermore, ideas originating with third parties which generate support are often co-opted by one of the two major parties. Finally, a third party has become a major party. The Republican Party supplanted the Whig Party as one of the two major parties in 1860 with the Whig Party not even running a Presidential candidate and the Republican Party winning its first Presidential election.

Personally, I think we are ready for a third Party to supplant the present Republican Party which has now nominated a New York liberal Democrat to run for President. Our choices based upon the two major political parties are New York liberal Democrat A or New York liberal Democrat B. That is one reason why I have become a member of the Constitution Party. I can not and will not vote for either candidate from the two major political parties. The only Constitutional conservative running for President, who is on the ballot in over 20 States, is Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party. He has my vote as a write-in candidate in Illinois. (His write-in candidacy in Illinois is pending. The deadline to file is September 8.)

You can not win the election if you do not run for the office. You can not win the election if you do not get on the ballot.

Vote Darrell Castle for President. The Constitutional Conservative!

I am a Christian, Constitutionalist, conservative.


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