Why Republican Candidates Should Avoid Media
Taegan Goddard points to Marc Ambinder’s take:
Between the day they announce their candidacy and the night their debates begin, they will draw little to no media attention unless they blunder.
Blunders — be they bursts of anger at interviewers or interpretative gaffes about the Iraq War — will be the central organizing principle of media coverage. There will of course be plenty of excellent journalism committed along the way, but it will be read by people whose minds are already made up, and it shall generally be forgotten. (There’s usually one exemption per cycle: In 2007 and 2008, Ron Brownstein divided the Obama and Clinton coalitions by employing a great metaphor: Hillary was supported by beer-track voters; Obama was supported by wine-track voters.)
For Republican candidates with national images — Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, perhaps Bobby Jindal — the downside potential for their favorability ratings among Republican primary voters is significantly greater than the chance that they’ll finish the fallow season with a favorable glow at all. For others, like Scott Walker, media attention to blunders might seem helpful, in the way that Republicans like to capitalize off of their own base’s resentment with the press.
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Chris May 15th, 2015 at 23:00
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Why Republican Candidates Should Avoid Media?”
Because they invariably follow this pattern: “Take foot. Stick in mouth.”
crc3 May 17th, 2015 at 09:33
Repulsive candidates have no viable plans for the future of the country. All they talk about is dismantling some program (like Obama Care) or anything else Obama has enacted. They stumble and bumble when asked questions so…yes…they should avoid the media. Informed voters who haven’t been brainwashed by the right wing media propaganda machine (namely FOX NOISE) will do the right thing and vote for Hillary or anyone else that’s not a Repulsive…
Merlin May 25th, 2015 at 17:56
For a political party that depends more on cheating at the last minute, republicans are serious gaff machines. I’m in my 60’s and have never voted for one in any office, but I have watched them for 50 years and have not even been able to reason why my own step father, a military man and life long republican, would feel benefited by their lack of sense or moral turpitude.