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Grass-Roots Level Campaign Coverage

The election analysis is all the same. For days, the political press was almost totally occupied with Sen. John Kerry\’s choice for the vice presidential candidate. When Sen. John Edwards was selected, everyone I saw or read had the same take: Terrific speaker; inexperienced; shady trial lawyer; fighter for the forgotten.

It was as if the journalists were afraid to stray off the beaten track or leave the reporting pack to have an original thought. Today\’s political reporting is a compendium of conventional wisdom. The motto of the press corps is: \”On one hand…. And on the other….\”

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