ASSESSMENT OF ELECTION RESULTS

What a big difference there is between fact and media "hype". Voters in 11 states have now rejected gay marriage and the conservative sites on the Internet are reporting Bush has won re-election. The liberal media, however, is reporting that, four years after Bush’s election in 2000, the voters are more deeply divided than ever. Such presumption by the liberals totally disregards the fact that Bush has won the first majority in 16 years.
At the same time NBC, MSNBC and FNC called the outcome in Ohio as being for Bush, CBS, ABC and CNN refused to do so, preferring to project Nevada for Bush, while the other media sources did not (even though 100 percent of that state’s votes were in). Once again it appears as though the television networks are deliberately keeping the election in limbo, and blatantly displaying their personal agendas.
In his latest press conference, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn, spoke of Senator Daschle’s (D-SD) defeat as the first ouster of a Senate boss since 1952, and made note of the voters’ rejection of Democrat "obstructionism". Senator George Allen, R-VA, acknowledged that Daschle’s ouster had been "the Republicans’ top priority." However, NBC was still reporting the Senate race in South Dakota as "to close to call", even though Daschle was more than 8,000 votes behind Thune and 99 percent of the precincts had reported.
What does this all tell you? I don’t know what it tells you, but it tells me that the voters have spoken and the media refuses to hear the message. The very media refusing to hear the message is the one we heretofore looked to for our daily news and of which we did not get. We, the electorate, need to now demand the same accuracy in media reporting as the media has demanded be delivered by the vote counting process in this country, albeit the media’s message falls short of accuracy, contrary to the success that vote counting has given us.