“Muslim murders in Paris just elected Trump or Cruz. Security is number one.”
For now.
Despite the ratings bump, the press will quickly ignore covering it, if they see it hurting Democrats chances. Other incidents are likely to occur before the election though, so the security issue could end up being the big one. Perhaps they will schedule an October surprise, like killing the ISIS leader, to try to flip the issue at the last minute.
Beyond Presidential approval and right track/wrong track, there are a bunch of issues that could really hurt the Dems if they become the issues of concern - security, immigration, economy, jobs, obamacare, emails, corruption.
For now. Despite the ratings bump, the press will quickly ignore covering it, if they see it hurting Democrats chances.
And that's why so many Americans are now reading DailyMail.com out of London. It's a difficult site in many ways; croweded with tabloid fodder and atrocious lack of copy-editing; but the breaking news and the huge photography are up-to-the-minute. And they have a comments section.