I'm a compulsive consumer of political journalism, and, while my memory is imperfect, I don't think horse-race reporting during the summer of presidential election years ever before was so blunt about how the contest is really occurring in just a relatively few "battleground states." The other day, for example, I read somewhere that Obama's ads featuring Bain Capital "are taking a toll on Romney in several battleground states."
Well, yes, those are the only states the ads are airing in. Because those are the only states that matter. It's the voters who live in them--Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, a handful (at most) of others--that get to choose the president. The rest of us are just spectators. To see the ads they talk about in news shows, we have to watch those shows. No one cares what we would make of them if they aired where we live. We've been deprived of a vote by the Electoral College.
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