Re: How Voters Can Regain Control of Congress

From: William F Hummel (wfhummel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:29:48 GMT

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:08:47 -0500, "Jim Blair" <jeb@wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>"William F Hummel" <wfhummel@comcast.net> wrote:

>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:55:30 -0500, "Jim Blair" <jeb@wisc.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> >??? The candidate gets campaign support from the party, not the reverse.
>> >How could Russ Feingold afford to run for senate except for the
>Democratic

>> >Party? (Russ is probably the poorest US senator. Maybe Herb Kohl, our
>> >other senator could afford to support his own campaign and his party as
>well
>> >;-).
>
>WFH:
>
>> You mean you want boss Tweed makes the decisions about who runs?
>
>Hi,
>
>That is the alternative to candidates with enough money that they don't need
>a party. Rather like Ross Perot creating a party to support him.

Nope. Ross Perot was a candidate. Tweed was a political boss who ran
an effective patronage system.
>
>jeb:
>
>> >The popular mis-conception is that "the media" has a Conservative bias.
>> >But see:
>> >
>> >http://www.thethoughtpolice.org/MediaBias.html
>> >
>> Don't you believe it. Television and radio talk shows with right wing
>> hosts are far more prominent than liberal talk shows.
>
>Talk radio, yes.
>
>>...The unabashed
>> right wing Fox network has no counterpart on the liberal side.
>
>??? You mean besides NBC, ABC, CBS and NPR? Dan Rather, etc.

No comparison.
>>
>> But the biggest dose of propaganda for right wing causes comes from
>> the evangelists who run their own TV stations.

Did you forget the evangelists?

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