So actually, it seems that 30% of the general American population identify as Democrats while 28% of American journalists identify as Democrats. At the same time while 24% of the general American population identify as Republicans a staggeringly low mere 7.1% of American journalists identify as Republicans. So it would seem that there are a very large number of American newrooms have only a few Republican journalists working on the payroll, to plenty of newsrooms that don't have a single Republican journalist working on the payroll. It would be a little hard for all of these American newsrooms to give an adequate Republican viewpoint to all of those Republican viewers, wouldn't it?
Not at all. Reporters are able to objectively report the news every day. Your assertion that:
The career politicians of the GOP establishment have been cowed and mostly controlled by the left wing biased media, the PR arm of the DNC, and have clearly been reduced to the point of being afraid to utter any non poll tested comments or policy statements.
Was proved untrue by your article. Your article:
Compared with 2002, the percentage of full-time U.S. journalists who claim to be Democrats has dropped 8 percentage points in 2013 to about 28 percent, moving this figure closer to the overall population percentage of 30 percent, according to a December 12-15, 2013, ABC News/Washington Post national poll of 1,005 adults. This is the lowest percentage of journalists saying they are Democrats since 1971.
Hmmm. Then there is the obvious. The obvious proof against your nonsense (said so often by republican politicians that some people actually believe it) is that the republicans control the house and senate. They have controlled the White House at least as much as the democrats have. We republicans are forming the national debate on just about every subject.
Drlee wrote:I will be voting for Trump in the Arizona primary elections. I am a registered Republican. Here is why.
I am a moderate conservative. Trump is by far and away the most moderate candidate.
Of course in the general election I would probably vote for either Clinton or Sanders before any of these guys.
So , in your case, a moderate conservative is basically a democrat lite?
What does that mean. You sound like a Fox News sound bite. But I will give you a serious answer.
I am a conservative. Most here would be more comfortable if I identified as a paleoconservative but I would not go that far. As for being a democrat lite, that could not be further from the truth. But the deal is that we do not have a liberal party worthy of attention in the US. We have two conservative ones. One centrist socially libertarian party (the democrats) and one fairly hard right in all but fiscal conservatism. There is no fiscally conservative party in the US. (Witness the absurd spending under Reagan and Bush II).
I can understand why you are eager to put everyone in one of two boxes but "it" just doesn't work that way. Witness the whalloping the establishment republicans took at the hands of Trump last night in Nevada. As much as we would like to believe that our elections are "brokered" by the wealthy or tainted by prejudiced journalists the people are still able to make them pay attention. Watching the coverage, I have never seen so many journalists with blank faces. Trump won with Hispanics? That really got them. More votes than the next two combined?
If you ever want to understand American politics you will start from where I am. That is a stark realization that though I have nearly 50 years as a voter, I will never be able to accurately second-guess the voter. They will surprise you every time. And stop thinking in sound bites. That vast independent conspiracy out there (by far and away the largest 'party' in the US is the group called "independent") does not think in sound bites. Just watch what happens in this election. Whether Trump gets the nomination or not he and Sanders have scared the shit out of the Dems and GOP establishment. All of the Koch brothers money may not be able to fix what the voters want to do.