Sunday, May 18, 2008

US Election Coverage, Rated R for Depiction of Violence

WWE = World Wrestling and Elections


With the recent Hollywood writer's strike bumping my favourite TV shows to September, its challenging to find some entertaining TV. That is, until I started following the US Democratic Nominee race. I especially dig the lingo. Some of my favourite language includes:

"Senator Clinton launched an attack of her own directed at Senator Obama"
"(The DNC debate) started with a cordial tone, soon turned into a knife fight"
"Obama focuses on McCain, launching salvo on his foreign policy"

I love it! This is just like the WWE!

Another thing we're enjoying is the socio-economic and racial profiling. Every election race comes with polls, its the law. But these polls are a little different. Consider this, from the Detroit Free Press

"Clinton bettered Obama by 50 percentage points among white voters without a college degree; among white voters with household incomes lower than $30,000, Clinton won by more than 60 percentage points. Obama's Ohio and Pennsylvania losses registered similar gaps among those demographics."

The above comes from print. However, CNN does the same type of profiling with motion graphics and sound effects. But it must be getting increasingly challenging for the pollsters (along with other groups like the KKK and other supremacist groups) to identify pure race and socio-economic class, with all this "mixing" going on.

But its all good entertainment so far. Keep it coming! I'm curious to see who wins. Will it be the African-American male, 50 - 60 years old, with a college degree, earning over $30,000? Or will it be the Caucasian-American female, protestant, 55-65 years old, with a college degree, earning over $30,000?


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