I Shocked Myself

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No, not with B+ from working on antique radios.

No, I decided maybe the media is biased against minor parties and their candidates. Not because anyone told me they were; I figured it out by looking at data. I very rarely vote for minor party candidates, so I'm not a whiny activist, so I have some credibility here. Bear with me.

A friend of mine starting spouting off about the Green Party and the Libertarian Party. This made me look at some polls. You can see daily poll results at realclearpolitics.com. Multiple polls from reputable sources, so let's agree up front these are legit numbers. So Stein polls at 2-6% today and Johnson at 6-12%. That's 8-18% of voters - a very high number not seen since, what, Ross Perot? Holy cow.

One would think that major media coverage should be proportional. So maybe 1 in 10 stories should be on these parties or candidates.

I'm an unashamed NPR listener. I searched the site for stories back to July 1 and found only 6 or 8. Assuming multiple Trump/Clinton stories every DAY, there should have been a lot more.

One wonders: would these parties be more popular if people heard about them proportional to their poll numbers? Instead we are bombarded by the big shots.

I wrote to NPR to ask them this question. If I get a response, I'll post it.