I'm about to stick my neck out...

[figmo]

...and make a prediction re: the Presidential election.

I have been saying for months that if McCain were to select a female VP candidate, he'd win the election.

I stand by that statement.

This has nothing to do with anyone's political preferences, including mine. I am making this prediction as a journalist.

My logic: Barack Obama's VP, Joe Biden, is male, thus alienating the folks who voted for Hillary Clinton because they wanted a woman President. Many of Hillary Clinton's supporters felt alienated by Obama's choice.

Many of these Hillary Clinton supporters are so desperate to see the "glass ceiling" shattered they'd vote for anything female on a ticket, no matter what her viewpoints were. Now that they have their female on a ticket, many of these former Clinton supporters will vote for the Republican slate, mostly to have a woman only "a heartbeat away" from the oldest Presidential candidate ever, exclusively because of her gender even though Sarah Palin's viewpoints are very different from Hillary Clinton's.

Comments

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Yes, absolutely. When news became entertainment in the mid-1970s or thereabouts, the media began to go downhill in their role as the fourth estate.

I can dimly remember newscasts that were about news, rather than ratings. That changed when I was still a child. What passes for "news" today disgusts me.

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

i'm afraid i don't remember real news, except that my parents sometimes watched the news hour with jim lehrer and meet the press. tim russert's death was a huge blow.
and ironically the best news on tv... on comedy central. (daily show & colbert)

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Alas, the reason Jon Stewart gets away with asking the real questions is the folks at the White House don't take him seriously because they see his show as a "comedy" show.

Note that until this President got into office, Helen Thomas had a front row seat in the press room at the White House. Now she's relegated to the back, rarely gets called on, and when she does, her question is indubidably dodged.