Well, I have to admit that it’s a little funny how much coverage an essentially meaningless primary is getting tonight. Sure, Obama is losing really, really badly in West Virginia (like, totally, really badly), but it seemed all week as though all the media outlets had agreed that WV and on were just show contests. Now nytimes.com has gone so far as to create a bar graph graphic on its front page showing Clinton’s margin of victory, county by county. She appears to have won them all. By a lot. Seriously, it looks like some West Virginians founded new counties of their own just so they could then vote for Clinton in them.
I suppose this is news, that the presumptive Democratic nominee is being roundly trounced by a candidate who most of us think won’t be in the race a month from now, even if we knew it was going to happen. But the utter…thoroughness…of this coverage is intimidating. I suppose it would be less fascinating if it weren’t inexplicably sharing the headlines with the earthquake and cyclone that have killed tens of thousands of people in the past week and a half.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Gregory Campeau (gcampeau11) // May 14, 2008 at 2:45 am
I’m sorry, all I can think about now are puns on “landslide”.
2 caravan70 (dpshupe92) // May 14, 2008 at 1:10 pm
It’s a product of the modern 24-hour news cycle. These guys have to have something to write about, so they write about the same thing all day.
Thank CNN and Fox News for the over-saturation.
3 caravan70 (dpshupe92) // May 14, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Though I would point out that West Virginia looms large in every election because of Jack Kennedy’s victory there in 1960, which propelled him to the nomination, and thus gets a ton of press in every election.
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