McCain's VP Pick

Today John McCain is going to announce is Vice Presidential pick in a couple minutes and now Barack Obama has lost almost all media attention. Even after his "masterpiece" of a speech last night. On all 3 major cable news channels John McCain has become the top story with only a few mentions of Obama. Even last night before Obama was to give his acceptance speech at the DNC the McCain Campaign announced that they were to announce something "exciting and unprecedented". Many in the Media thought McCain was going to announce his Vice Presidential pick before Obama would give his speech. The Obama campaign cried foul and it turned out the McCain Campaign posted a video on their website congratulating Obama on his historic win.

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Multimedia/Player.aspx?guid=392f30e7-e8c3-4e23-8384-37eabb4e96b8

This morning when I turned on the news, after the DNC ended McCain was now the top story. Even with all the focus on the DNC and Obama, McCain still made media headlines with his new campaign commercials posted on his website and also showing on TV during the DNC. Today all 3 cable stations were focused on who McCain would pick. After learning that Romney and Pawlenty were not on the list, they focused their attention on a small plane that flew from Anchorage, Alaska to a small town outside of Dayton, Ohio in the middle of the night, with a woman in her 40's and two teenage sons. About 10:40 this morning CNN announced on their Political Ticker that McCain picked the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential Pick.

Now Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC all have the McCain VP pick as their top story leaving Obama out of the news almost all together except for occasional comments on what Obama's campaign has to say about the pick. As McCain takes the stage in Ohio the 4 networks switch from their normal programing to focus on the VP pick. McCain made a wise choice on when to announce his pick. With his announcement coming the day after Obama made his acceptance speech he has a great opportunity to steal his post convention "bump".

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This blog is going to focus on the media and how it is affecting the current Presidential Election and other elections around the country. The media has a very important job during the political season, to present unbiased information to the voters, but very often their reporting becomes filled with biases. Whether it is FoxNews reporting a more conservative point of view or MSNBC reporting from the liberal point of view, they all have the power to influence how voters will vote.