voters shifting back toward Moore<\/a>.\u00a0 Weakness of claims, distracting news accounts (Weinstein, Franken, Lauer), traditional Republican state, all likely true but I suspect the real reason is timing.<\/p>\nThe Washington Post released the article as an October Surprise, intended to create the drop in the polls that it did create.\u00a0 But they dropped the bomb too early.\u00a0 They were relying on the traditional news cycle of print and monopoly television to get out damaging information while guarding against exculpatory information.\u00a0 The plan was to keep voters upset at Moore until the clock ran out. That\u2019s the way it always worked in the past.<\/p>\n
They miscalculated the way people now get their news, instantly, from multiple sources.\u00a0 Using those faster sources, Moore had time to recover.\u00a0 The recovery was helped by all the other factors in the article, sure, but if the Post had dropped the bomb closer to the election, the recovery would have come too late for Moore and the plan to smear him into losing the election would have succeeded.<\/p>\n
Count on Liberals to remember it next time.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
My two cents:\u00a0 It’s a collective FU to the establishment that gave Clinton and the like a pass on things just as bad as Moore is accused of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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