The press seem happy about the Democratic primary. At first their homogenized plot arc was that Obama was an exciting newcomer who was outraising Hillary. Then it was that Obama doesn't know how to keep momentum and that Hillary is the inevitable candidate. Now the story is that Obama has been catching up and that the race is a "nail biter." I mean, that's the story the press wants right?
It's kind of perfect: intro the newcomer who is going to take down the Man (in this case the Man being Hillary Clinton) then show how the newcomer looks like he's going to lose to the Man. Then in the final stretch, the newcomer gets closer and it looks like we have a race. How exciting!
It's hard to decipher what's actually happening and what is just an engineered story but for the very fact that the Iowa caucuses carry so much weight because the press then give the winner momentum, what's really happening is that it is an engineered story.
The press and the pollsters are like chess players moving the candidates across the board. It's so weird and it's pretty sad.
Oh and in the story, they generally mention John Edwards as a possibility. But they beat him down early in the race because he challenged poverty and isn't poor. Our country is being run by a club of gossipers who look nice in suits sending stories to their editors via their blackberries. It's very tiring.
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