The Strib collects more DFL flak points, breathlessly reporting that, fifteen months before the election, Senator Coleman’s numbers have dropped from “plenty solid” to “still plenty solid”:<\/p>\n
That’s a slip from last month, when the same poll showed a 48 percent job approval rating for Minnesota’s senior senator.<\/p>\n
Cullen Sheehan, Coleman’s campaign manager, dismissed the poll, saying that “with 16 months to the election, there will be numerous polls with numerous results. The senator’s priority is to get things done for Minnesota.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The story does have one relaitvely honest note:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coleman recently has been subjected to a drumbeat of attacks for his continued support of the Iraq war in the face of mounting public disapproval. National Democrats and antiwar activists have started two separate TV ad campaigns criticizing Coleman for his opposition to troop pullouts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Background: in the Twin Cities, the major media and the DFL are practically indistinguishable; the number of reporters, <\/em>not merely editors and publishers<\/a>, who’ve gone on to jobs with the party and with various candidates, office-holders and “progressive” rent-a-blogs<\/a> is staggering.\u00a0 Lori Sturdevant is the smug, disingenuous tip of the figurative iceberg.\u00a0 It is truly sad and amazing that the Minnesota Public Radio <\/em>newsroom (as opposed to their programming) is probably the most fair and balanced in the region.<\/p>\n
So the Strib, which is part <\/em>of the DFL\/media bloc that is broadcasting the attack ads, is now reporting the attack ads as news to help further their effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sure, a 5-6 point poll drop is news (also meaningless at this point in the campaign).\u00a0 But look for much, much more of this as the we\u00a0 move into the final year of this campaign.\u00a0 The Twin Cities’ media is an organ of the DFL, and it will act as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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