How Polls and press are Shaping Public Opinion of Election 08

I urge you to read the full article. It is a good article on how the press is shaping our election again - i.e. interfering.
We all know this but, the article is so good anyway.


WASHINGTON -- America stands on the election equator for 2008, one year separating the date when presidential candidates began throwing their hats into the ring in 2006 and one year before the country elects a new president. The game-changing factor in the campaign, however, is how this long stretch of campaigning has created a less well-informed electorate because of the unprecedented impact of the polls on the news media.

According to Barry Sussman, editor of the Nieman Journalism Watchdog Project, part of the Nieman Journalism Foundation at Harvard University, "the press is having a primary of its own, and there's not much talk about issues -- not from candidates or the press. That's unfortunate, because traditionally election campaigns have been a time when the press at least does thumbsuckers on important issues. I think polls are very valuable in identifying those issues for reporters and editors -- but that's not the use that polls are being put to. It's for a horse race."

The big binoculars up in the broadcasting booth are already trained on just two candidates -- Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. The results are in, but is this democracy in action?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/338318_pollsteronline06.html

some one who can't think for them self and has to be told what to do ought to loose their vote.