The vice-presidential debate was held October 4, Tuesday evening. CNN had assembled a focus group of 28 individuals, who were on camera to discuss their reactions to the debate. CNN asked which way each member was leaning. Twelve of the 28 said they intend to vote for a third party or independent candidate for president. CNN had filmed that, but chose not to air it. Instead CNN re-shot that part of the interview and had them listed as “undecided.” See this summary of the incident at Reason.com. Thanks to Jack Dean for the link.
This is a violation of free speech .I don’t trust the media .I think they are becoming Government controlled.Every voter should be able give their opinions in focus groups regardless who they are voting for .Thank God for radio shows like Democracy Now .
That’s right. If you don’t support the major party candidates, you are obviously confused. The media can encourage that!
Oops, I meant to say “The media CANNOT encourage that!”
12 of 28 is 42% That’s WAY higher than 15%, even for two candidates. Could that be the reason the vote was censored?
That’s what a line in the US News report suggests: “Such a result would not reflect national polling. . . .”
What’s more, both the linked articles cite the complaining participant (Justin Smith) as reporting the vote that time to be 5 for Clinton, 2 for Trump, and 12 for “third party”, with 9 no-votes presumably undecided (or slow to respond) the first time around. That’s 63% for another alternative.
We need a nationwide power outage on November 8th to shut down all electronic voting and create massive public demand for a return to hand counted paper ballots which will then prove beyond a doubt that the polls and elections are all rigged.
How about wall Street collapsing on Election day .The economy is slow anyways and neither have a good solution economically.
How many of the media hack biz have some sort of semi-monopoly licenses from the Fed or State regimes —
i.e. TV and radio stations, etc.
i.e. do NOT be *too* critical of the incumbent regimes or LOSE your Biz license to operate.
More mainstream media bias.
This is more evidence that we need to break up the Republicrat duopoly.