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Murphy Martin Commentary
October 26, 2006
"Last Minute Sparring"
The mid-term elections
are just days away and it is interesting to watch the Democrats and
the Republicans duke it out in the trenches for control of the House
and Senate.
Dependent upon to whom
you listen, the Dems will retake control of the House while the GOP
will narrowly hold control of the Senate, or, the GOP just might
squeeze through still controlling both the House and Senate.
Earlier this week the folks at ABC-TV put together a list of things
they thought the Old Media (liberal) would do to cover the last days
before the election:
1. Glowingly profile Speaker-Inevitable Nancy Pelosi, with loving
mentions of her grandmotherly steel (such as last Sunday's
60-minutes), and fail to describe her as "ultra liberal" or "an
extreme liberal", which would mirror the way Gingrich was painted
twelve-years ago.
2. Look at every attempt by the President to define the race on his
terms as deluded and desperate, Increasingly quote Republican
strategists saying that the President is hurting the party whenever
he enters the fray.
3. Refuse to join the daily Ken Mehlman-Rush Limbaugh conference
calls despite repeated invitations.
4. Imbue every Democratic candidate for whom Bill Clinton campaigns
with a golden halo.
5. Paint groups that run ads or do turnout for Republican Candidates
as shadowy, extreme, corrupt, and illegitimate; describe their
analogues on the left as valiant underdogs, part of a People's Army
(with homage to Rich Lowry).
6. Care more about voter disenfranchisement than voter fraud.
7. Take every Republican quote expressing some trepidation about the
outcome and banner it.
8. Drop any pretense of covering good news from Iraq or good news
about the economy, including some upcoming positive macro numbers.
9. Amplify Obama-mania as a metaphor for the Democratic Party being
the party of excitement and the future.
And, one of the last suggestions was:
Lock in the conventional wisdom( which shockingly could be wrong)
that the winner of two out of three Senate races in Virginia,
Tennessee, and Missouri will control the Senate.
These are the methods ABC sees the Old Media (liberal) using in the
last days before the November elections!
And, the network says despite the national climate, as reflected in
national public polls and most district and state private polls,
Republicans have a lot of fight left in them. If you want to follow
the subtle shifts, you need to start your day looking at the little
wisps out there that just might mean Republicans can keep from being
completely massacred while still losing seats!
You, the voters, will
tell us how right they were when your votes are all added up in
early November!
Murphy Martin
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