This says it all. Best way to overcome is to fight. Fight with email, yard signs, volunteering, and bumper stickers.
"Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review's Web site, ridicules all the media chatter about a Gore "bounce" from the L.A. extravaganza. Why? "He's still gonna lose."
Goldberg helpfully points out "the problem with bounce hysteria: It's bunk, and the press knows it. First of all, the numbers…as with all bounce -- are all over the place. Some have Gore up, some down. Some said Mondale got no bump in 1984 and others say he went through the roof."
Recalling the fate of previous bumpees -- Jimmy Carter in '80, Walter Mondale in '84, Bob Dole in '96 -- he clearly demonstrates that an August surge can evaporate by November. Ignoring all the rough press coverage that Gore got (when he was down in the polls), Goldberg concludes:
"In a sense, whether bias is a factor or not doesn't matter. The press wants a horse race and so they're playing up the 'whole new ballgame' feel of the Gore bounce. And, in a way, this is as it should be. No election is written in stone, and responsible reporters shouldn't write off campaigns before they get started (like they did with Dole . . . ). The press should cover elections in real time, so I can forgive them their hysteria over Gore's catch-up in the polls."
Hysteria? Sounds more like a great collective sigh of relief that the race remains competitive. The deepest, darkest fear of reporters is a snoozer of a campaign."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3770-2000Aug22.html
"Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review's Web site, ridicules all the media chatter about a Gore "bounce" from the L.A. extravaganza. Why? "He's still gonna lose."
Goldberg helpfully points out "the problem with bounce hysteria: It's bunk, and the press knows it. First of all, the numbers…as with all bounce -- are all over the place. Some have Gore up, some down. Some said Mondale got no bump in 1984 and others say he went through the roof."
Recalling the fate of previous bumpees -- Jimmy Carter in '80, Walter Mondale in '84, Bob Dole in '96 -- he clearly demonstrates that an August surge can evaporate by November. Ignoring all the rough press coverage that Gore got (when he was down in the polls), Goldberg concludes:
"In a sense, whether bias is a factor or not doesn't matter. The press wants a horse race and so they're playing up the 'whole new ballgame' feel of the Gore bounce. And, in a way, this is as it should be. No election is written in stone, and responsible reporters shouldn't write off campaigns before they get started (like they did with Dole . . . ). The press should cover elections in real time, so I can forgive them their hysteria over Gore's catch-up in the polls."
Hysteria? Sounds more like a great collective sigh of relief that the race remains competitive. The deepest, darkest fear of reporters is a snoozer of a campaign."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3770-2000Aug22.html