The People Speak: Dennis Wins Democratic Debate on ABC
Update: Here’s the full survey as of 7pm ET:
Update #2: Check out this great “talk clock” courtesy of ChrisDodd.com. We already know the media will cover the celebrity candidates disproportionately, so can someone tell me again why all the candidates aren’t at least given equal time to speak during the debate? And why the moderator talks more than many of the candidates? At least the time given to each candidate is a bit more proportional than in the CNN/YouTube debate.
What’s that? You didn’t know there was a Democratic debate in Iowa yesterday (Sunday) at 8am? You weren’t alone. But this was the first Dem. debate on a major network, and judging from the viewer response over the last 24 hours, Dennis is continuing his quiet dominance in recent forums (quiet only because the media won’t report on it).
Kucinich stands atop ABC’s unscientific poll with 32% of voters saying he won. Obama’s in second with 23% and Hillary rounds out the top 3 with 15%. Kucinich’s strong lead comes despite receiving fewer questions and less time to talk than almost any other candidate, and despite moderator Stephanopoulos’s repeated efforts to avoid or change the subject from anything Dennis wanted to talk about.
Already the debate is being spun as victory for Obama, Edwards, and Richardson — with Kucinich no where in the media’s storyline of events. Buried down at the very bottom of ABC’s own reporting on the debate is a single line about Dennis’s strong performance:
“When asked to describe the “decisive moment” in his life that ultimately had led him to enter politics, Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich told a moving story about growing up poor.”
Thanks ABC. Because no one saw this debate, the narrow opinions of political pundits and gate-keepers are more important than ever — they literally create the reality of the event for most people. ABC’s influential political blog “The Note,” when reporting this morning on the media’s perceived “Winners and Losers,” again relegates Kucinich to a single dismissive mention in an otherwise detailed article:
“In case you missed it while Edwards was grinning, Rep. Dennis Kucinich was praying, and former senator Mike Gravel was loving (and embodying the argument for a winnowed field), an actual real debate on the war happened.”
Unfortunately, for those of us looking for the real story on the debate, YouTube isn’t helping and our only option appears to be the transcript. Here you can see how few questions Dennis got, and how he excelled in his answers every single time.
Discuss with friends and family how the media is trying to decide for us who is and is not a “serious” candidate. Vote for Dennis here (click on “Vote: Who Won the Dems’ Debate?”), leave comments on ABC’s site, and send an email to the producers who ran the debate over at “This Week.”
The media is a very powerful tool of propaganda and it will take a good deal of grassroots work to counter it. But it’s not impossible, and it’s definitely worth trying. Kucinich is the only candidate who is in tune with the American people in this election that if we can just get his platform to the masses then he should enjoy a great deal of support.
Media darlings Obama, Clinton, and Edwards got the most attention. I know I’M shocked.
[…] Ev wrote a short analysis of ABC’s coverage of the results, or lack thereof, over at The 35 Percenters. There’s also a more updated screencap of the poll, still showing Dennis ahead by a […]
I have sent a few emails to the LA Times concerning their slanderous accusation that Kucinich supporters altered the results. I also commented on ABCs this week as well as published a post concerning the debate and this poll.
This issue needs to be spread.
Wishing you well.
No offense holmes, but, quietly, we did alter the results what with the email blast :/
Yeah, and Obama, Clinton, and Edwards supporters are free to alter the results for their candidates. But I guess Wall Street traders, corporate bigwigs, and hedge funders are too busy bilking the public to bother with polls.
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I’d love to see Dennis win, but remember the polling is worldwide and not just the states. He has a good chance if most of the votes came from the US. I think a lot of people worldwide (Myself incl) voted for Dennis simply because I respect his message, honesty, and sincerity. If most of Americans do too then he could do it.
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