President Hillary Clinton? President Obama? Says Who?

Published: August 1, 2007, 5:33 pm

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by Cameron Salisbury, Opednews.com The mainstream media has already picked the Democratic front runners for the next presidential election. Six months before the first caucus and 18 months before the election, we get a daily dose of their preferences: Obama and Hillary. The chosen candidates receive untold millions of dollars in free advertising as part of the press coverage surrounding the media stampede. Remember the breathless speculation before Hillary announced? The unrelenting media speculation before Obama announced? Anybody remember similar coverage for John Edwards? Joe Biden? Dennis Kucinich? Poll results are fundamentally created by media hype and the media then dutifully report them in a self-fulfilling cycle that ends with the election between the two candidates that, too often, the media promoted best. But history shows that that neither big poll numbers nor big money can guarantee a victory. First, the money. According to OpenSecrets.org (www.opensecrets.org/] the

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