Smitty
“but i’ll answer your question with a question: does the free media on fox about romney, unions, about the economy sucking, about there not being a war on women, and about taxes – do you think any of that factors into the elections? fox is the ratings leader, after all.”
Yes, Fox is the leader in CABLE. Their numbers pale in comparison to ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, etc. Throw in WaPo, NYT, LAT against, what, the Washington Times and the (editorial page only) of the WSJ circulation and you get the idea. Media bias is not even close.
I have seen much different numbers than the 8-1. I believe the unions spent 22M or so in this recall. That had to buy some votes. I also the the left COULD have contributed more to reduce the ratio but chose not to when they knew it was a losing cause. Smart move, really. Same reason Obama didn’t heavily campaign either – you don’t want to be too closely tied to a losing vote. So, some of the money argument is chicken and the egg…….imo