[SoFloFreeper]

I am so sad.

[AppyPappy]

Someone hold me.

[envisio]

Queue the Prissy Chrissy pouting with his armed folded on election night photo.

[Paladin2]

Just goes to show one shouldn’t count their chickens before they (the chickens) come home to roost.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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The "dirty little news media secret" is that elections are ALWAYS called as "too close to call", or the "gap is narrowing", or that the "momentum is shifting" in favor of the No. Two candidate.

It's all about the money.

Elections are a major "revenue cash cow" for America's TV stations / newspapers / radio stations.

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[Mannaggia l'America]

That irks me... It didn't "cost" them $10 million. Not receiving money that you expected doesn't "cost" you that money.

It's like when the libs say a tax cut "costs" the government money...

[Vendome]

Is he implying they didn’t accept ads from the opposition, for the sole purpose of supporting their candidates?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’d like to see the TV and radios stations have to do the campaign ads as a free “public service”. Maybe then we wouldn’t see and/or hear so many of the dang things.

[GeronL]

money you never got is not lost money

[notdownwidems]

I just love a happy ending!

[Sgt_Schultze]

I can’t understand how this is true. Federal law require that stations sell their ad time at the lowest-cost rates listed. If the stations didn’t sell their time to the candidates, then they were able to sell it at prevailing rates to others. Am I being asked to believe that there were mostly PSA’s and station ID’s on during programming breaks, instead of profitable business ads?

[zeugma]

Our nation has been very carefully by the media to maintain a almost exactly split electorate for exactly this reason. All the moaning you hear about the expense of campaigns is nothing but bull. Elections are the only thing that keeps many media markets afloat.

[NorthMountain]

My heart breaks for the leftist bastards ...