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In reply to the discussion: Democrats should be livid about losing the House [View all]certainot
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what kept it close is what got us here in the first place - dems and the left ignore the massive talk radio advantage. 1500 radio stations screamed INFLATION! FUEL PRICES! RENT! CRIME! IMMIGRATION! to 50 MIL a week. if the GOP would pay $1000/month for a one hr radio infomercial, 1200 stations x 15hrs/day is worth $90M/wk or almost $5B/year. that's FREE to the cons.
we got lucky that limbaugh died so that messaging monster isn't as unified on everything and that was a big help to democrats, in those senate races especially. but now all those republican radio stations are going to be unified making excuses for walker now and attacking warnock. this would be a fantastic opportunity for dems to use AI, such as described at fakenewsradio.org, to go on the offensive and start monitoring the RW Ga stations. it is political malpractice for dems not to do it and this would be a great opportunity for it.
there are probably 40 or more RW stations in Ga. there might not be any liberal talk stations in the state. that's a massive advantage for the GOP that democrats routinely ignore. they say anything they want, hiding behind call screeners.worse than that 3 Ga universities support 14 of those stations - Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2.
in comparison the gerrymandering is practically irrelevant. probably most of those too close to call congressional races are in talk radio country. if dems had done something for these elections re talk radio, even just to get attention to it, walker would not have had a chance. ron jonson is a long time talk radio guy. he would have been gone. grassley would have been gone. many more races would not have been close. without rw radio republicans would not have won congress in 94, we would have been way ahead on climate and healthcare, we wouldn't't have gone into afghanistan or iraq, and bush and trump would not have gotten anywhere near the white house.