[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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[C. Edmund Wright]

It’s not the cash cow it may appear to be - the rates for political ads must be the lowest rates a radio or TV station sells advertising at.....or at least it used to be that way.

So it can be a big top line number, but these ads may have taken air time that would have been sold at a higher rate to a normal advertiser. And then there’s the fact that normal advertisers avoid air time around elections because they know everybody is sick of political ads.

So its a revenue stream, but it has a down side.

[Conservative Gato]

Just another reason to dislike my local news media. Most all were reporting Greg Orman up by 1 point when in reality, Pat Roberts won by 10 points. That’s an 11 point swing and nowhere close to what they were reporting.

CGato

[mad_as_he$$]

Not just electronic media. Print/mailing houses do very well also.