I doubt that most Democrats don't think about the slant of the paper one way or another. Yes, junkies do, but not the vast majority.
Some single mom with two kids who is a member of the Culinary Union probably isn't too concerned about it.
However, SOME people who think Barack as too inexperienced and/or too liberal may indeed be influenced (not swayed, i doubt anyone is ever swayed by an endorsement) by the paper's editorial.
I think people who read the paper know the difference. People know the difference between the Washington Post and the Washington Times for instance. My guess is people in Vegas who read newspapers, or who vote in Caucuses, know the difference. Rightwing papers are not usually subtle in their slant.
Oh sure -
Partisan sentiment it is, I still have to agree with the poster above...
I can't see how anyone who might have otherwise either stayed home or voted differently suddenly either deciding to caucus or support a certain candidate because of an endorsement backlash.
I'm highly suspicious of anyone voting the affirmative based on a paper's endorsement (at least for Pres... I don't rely solely on - but do read and use endorsements waaayyyy down ticket) - even more so suspicious of a negative endorsement effect.
FWIW, I do think the upside here for Obama is give a cutesy thanks-but-no-thanks to endorsement... and even as a supporter, I'd like him all the more if he did so... but I suspect that the larger thematic tenor of his campaign makes that a tightrope not worth walking.
As a Las Vegas resident who's political active I am being 100% sincere when I say that the Review Journal is a hated among democrats. Even people who aren't really political active know that the paper is hard right conservative. We're talking Republican Revolution I wish 3/4 of the government were gone type of conservatives.
I am not from Vegas, but here in Tampa we have a very similar newspaper dynamic, with two major newspapers, one right-wing, one liberal. I doubt there is a single politically somewhat involved person who does NOT know that the St. Petersburg Times tilts strongly to the left, and the Tampa Tribune tilts strongly to the right. I assume the same is true for most Las Vegas residents in regards to the political tilt of the LV Journal vs. the LV Sun.
I lived in Las Vegas for 7 years. Both of the papers in Reno and Las Vegas are despised by NV workers as they are both consistently Republican, and anti union.
Obama's surrogates were running around Vegas and Reno yesterday with flyers asking that Republicans join in the Democratic caucus to defeat Clinton, and of course, this doesn't affect their general vote but....JOIN US IN DEFEATING HILLARY CLINTON.
Obama camp said guy was fired who did this. Sure. GOP wants Obama to run. He's a much easier target and they are lining up lots of Chicago and lackluster US Senate material.
Whenever anyone mentions any negatives about Obama, David Axelrod's response is "The average person cares not one whit about this".
He could, unfortunately be right.
>>>GOP wants Obama to run. He's a much easier target and they are lining up lots of Chicago and lackluster US Senate material.
You lose credibility when you make carte blanche statements like that couched in opinion as fact. Just who are you to make a blanket statement like that without backing it up with some analysis.
Who are you that people ought to listen to you? Oh, yeah, you're a Hillbot, so logic won't sink in.
