1) How much of the election news has been packaged as entertainment?
I think the majority of the election coverage has played off of emotions rather than as entertainment value. Their were many ads that were negative while there were few ads that actually had the candidates telling America what their policies were or what they were going to do as President.
2) Whose fault is this? The candidates? The media? Everyone else?
Media chooses to show certain things. But, the cadnidates also choose to place negative ads on TV that tells you why NOT to vote for the other guy as opposed to why you should should vote for them. Still again, it is also the fault of the Americans who do not take the time to do any real research into the candidates's policies and ideas or do not take the time to research any attacks on the candidates to see if they are grounded in truth or not. Certain people in my family are an example of this. I don't want to get into all of it right now, but: They have only read the emails with excerpts from Obama's book that supposedly show he is evil; they have never read the whole book in context. That makes me sick.
3) What does this do to America's ability to gather information?
4) How important were the debates to the election turnout?
5) How did the media do in covering race within the election?
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