I'm beginning to think that a Dem Strategy should be to inform the uninformed--they are voting.

[Chathamization]

42. Yep. The mainstream media is a right-wing organ at the moment, and the more people who shut it off

the better. Constant talk about how the ACA is failing, then silence when it ends up working. Remember when places like the New York Times were reporting that the ACA would cost millions of jobs (because of a report that said that millions of individuals who wanted to retire but were forced to work because they needed healthcare could finally afford to retire)? Or when they spent weeks pushing the fake IRS scandal, then didn't bother to correct it at all when it turned out to be garbage (which was actually evident if they had read the initial report - but they didn't bother to)?

Or the constant barrage of crises of the week we've been bombarded with? Nothing changed with Ebola, or ISIS, or Boko Haram, or Ukraine, or Syria, or undocumented children, but though we hear barely any news about these things now, there was a time when the media was screaming "HOW COULD OBAMA LET THIS HAPPEN SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!" Of course, as soon as it was revealed that these things were complicated and there were no quick fixes, the media dropped each issue and jumped on to the next one.

Or the coverage of the Republican shut down of the government? Republicans were bragging to their base about how they would shut the government down (eliciting many cheers), and then when they did it the media started talking about how both sides were to blame; and then after the shutdown, proceeded to trash the ACA 24/7 so no one would remember it. Republican numbers were in the tank a year ago, before the MSM rescued them.

Shutting off the MSM, and encouraging others to, is one of the best things someone can do.