11-11-2016, 04:46 PM
John Knoble Wrote:I don't watch television very much, but I suspect much of the public formed an impression of Trump's leadership qualities as a result of reality TV long before he declared.
If such is the case then you have no idea what happened in the 2016 US Presidential Election.
Which was all about TV.
Quote:He made some troubling comments,
A savage under-statement.
The sheer volume of his troubling statements was mind-numbing.
The sheer volume of the cable news/Republican obsession with Hillary's e-mails was mind numbing.
Quote:but they didn't stick as much as they otherwise would because he was already defined in the minds of a lot of people. A lot of people probably saw her attack commercials as exaggeration, and while they may have helped her win the popular vote by firing up voters in states she was already going to win, there was a slight backlash of a few percent in others.
Quoting someone's own words is not an exaggeration.
The backlash against Hillary's e-mails was intense.
Comey's Treason Letter was a political assassination.
Quote:I doubt I'm the only person who went to the polls uncertain of what either candidate would do on certain critical issues like Wall Street regulation, information privacy and foreign adventurism.
Such uncertainty was the result of not paying sufficient attention.
If you didn't watch cable news you missed it.