Bandwagon Supporters
Nathan Greene
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I find it comical to watch the main street media talk about the presidential races. The only thing I can relate it to would be a roller coaster. One minute, candidate A is the nominee of his/her party and the next minute, the media wonders when candidate A is getting out of the race.
With the Republican nomination pretty much settled, it’s been amusing watching the media try to figure out what the heck happened to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Night after night they talk about how she isn’t doing as well with women as she once was, or how she has lost the support of union workers. I’m shocked at how many news segments can be devoted to this topic when the answer is so simple: America loves a winner.
As a sports fan, I hate bandwagon fans, but politics is all about them. So here we have Senator Obama, who in all reality has only won a bunch of small states, but when he can say I’m 11-0, people take notice and then ultimately vote for him.
So why isn’t Senator Clinton doing as well as she has in the past with women, Hispanics, and union workers? Because the percenption is that she’s losing. It’s also no different on the Republican side; McCain used the momentum from wins New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida to wrap up the Republican nomination, just like Obama is doing with his party.
I saw this morning that someone posed the question of what will it take for Hillary to “win” on March 4th in Texas and Ohio. The answer is 50.1% in both states. Sure the nomination fight in each party involves delegates, but the media focuses too much on winners and losers of states and ignores the delegate count until the next day. So if Hillary can sweep next Tuesday it’s a huge win, no matter if they split the delegates or not.
In politics, perception is everything.
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