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I think both media coverage of certain sound bites repeatedly, and the way the candidates present can affect voting, though hopefully, folks can decide based on more than that. 

posted by Sea_Gypsy on October 14, 2016 at 1:59 PM | link to this | reply

The candidates definitely do. Look at how Obama was able to acquire the youth and African American vote in 2008. Those are typically an age demographic and racial demographic, respectively, that do not vote in droves relative to their numbers, but they did there.

JFK inspired a lot of Catholics to vote. 

I do not believe the media has that sort of influence on making people turn out to vote. Turnout is fairly poor.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on October 14, 2016 at 10:12 AM | link to this | reply

Not a lot Bill, I think most know before the outrage.

posted by C_C_T on October 14, 2016 at 9:32 AM | link to this | reply