As we look at the Republican primary, after Florida, state
number 4, Romney is now an 8:1 favorite over the field to be nominated,
according to those willing to put their money on the line for it. CNN and the other stations, however, are
going to keep inundating us with details, because there’s really no incentive
for them not to do so. After all, what
sort of meaningful content is cheaper than paying some guy to read statistics
off a computer screen? Not to mention
the money from the TV ads themselves.
One might think that the media has an incentive to keep the
appearance of a close race. Certainly
the losing candidates do, but possibly Romney does as well. His ratings decreased when he began to act as
the presumptive nominee. They improved
again, once people remembered that the alternative is Gingrich. I wonder how Romney would do against “A
randomly selected registered Republican eligible to be president” if such an
option were available on the ballot.
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