You’re news, you lose
Here’s the harsh reality of 2016 politics, as demonstrated by Hillary Clinton last week and Pat McCrory over the past many weeks: If you lead the news, you lose in the polls.
You’re news, you lose.
In an angry, negative political environment, more media attention translates directly into more negative feelings from voters.
The ongoing HB2 controversy – business losses, NCAA losses, ACC losses – upended the governor’s race. It has dominated all North Carolina political news. And McCrory has gone from leading to losing to Roy Cooper.
Democrats should wish Republicans would call a special legislative session on HB2. By the time legislators finish thrashing around, McCrory would be down by double digits and Republican seats at risk would be up to double digits.
The same thing has happened in the presidential race. Hillary Clinton took a solid lead after the Democratic convention, when media coverage focused on Trump attacking the Khan family, plus his other outlandish statements.
The media, of course, eventually tied of writing Hillary-is-winning stories. So Hillary gave them a chance to change the “narrative” when she called Trump voters “deplorables,” nearly collapsed after a 9/11 event and withheld news of her pneumonia.
That dominated the news last week and, sure enough, the race got closer.
Maybe everybody just needs to shut up.
You’re news, you lose
Here’s the harsh reality of 2016 politics, as demonstrated by Hillary Clinton last week and Pat McCrory over the past many weeks: If you lead the news, you lose in the polls.
You’re news, you lose.
In an angry, negative political environment, more media attention translates directly into more negative feelings from voters.
The ongoing HB2 controversy – business losses, NCAA losses, ACC losses – upended the governor’s race. It has dominated all North Carolina political news. And McCrory has gone from leading to losing to Roy Cooper.
Democrats should wish Republicans would call a special legislative session on HB2. By the time legislators finish thrashing around, McCrory would be down by double digits and Republican seats at risk would be up to double digits.
The same thing has happened in the presidential race. Hillary Clinton took a solid lead after the Democratic convention, when media coverage focused on Trump attacking the Khan family, plus his other outlandish statements.
The media, of course, eventually tied of writing Hillary-is-winning stories. So Hillary gave them a chance to change the “narrative” when she called Trump voters “deplorables,” nearly collapsed after a 9/11 event and withheld news of her pneumonia.
That dominated the news last week and, sure enough, the race got closer.
Maybe everybody just needs to shut up.