Whoever wins today, Dems will have to reckon with this: They are facing a lopsided communications...

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Whoever wins today, Dems will have to reckon with this: They are facing a lopsided communications imbalance, one that enablied Youngkin and his allies to employ a massive propaganda apparatus to pump right wing sewage at the GOP base for months. My latest:

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The Plum Line

Opinion: Glenn Youngkin’s repulsive final push reveals a dark truth for Democrats

By Greg Sargent
Columnist
Today at 11:13 a.m. EDT

With Virginia voters set to elect a governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin’s final messages are positively overflowing with sunny calls for unity. One closing ad features footage of African American families smiling and strolling as Youngkin piously claims his campaign has been about “parents who want a better education for their kids.”

It’s a repulsively cynical finale, after a campaign built heavily around stoking white grievance with attacks on phantom critical race theory in schools and torquing up the base by feeding Donald Trump’s lies about our election system.

But this duplicity has benefited from a hidden assist. For months, Youngkin and his allies have pumped that raw right-wing sewage directly into the minds of the GOP base, behind the backs of moderate swing voters, via a right-wing media network that has no rival on the Democratic side.

Democrats will have to reckon with this. Whether Democrat Terry McAuliffe wins or loses — it will be very close either way — this race highlights this lopsided communications imbalance with unique clarity.

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Opinion by Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Twitter https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs

[East-A-Squared]

1. As long as reich wingers own media, that imbalance will

continue.

[Budi]

3. Imagine the coverage with a Media force not Owned by Billionare Corporations!

The Billionare Corporate Media that tells us what to think, what to buy, what drug prescriptions to take, & is owned by their advertisers.

Today's Media is simply a 24/7 promo ad campaign to increase & protect their profits.

Billionare Corporate Owned Media will play the biggest part in destroying the American Democracy.

[tech3149]

4. Back in the day the party was advised to do so

They did not recognize that Fox was the creation of Ailes dream of GOP TV. He pushed that idea on Richard effing Nixon!
The UAW funded a progressive working class radio network for years until they elected a new president. This preceded the killed from within Air America network.

If someone spends decades ignoring good advice and failing to examine or modify a losing strategy, it would be reasonable to question the intent or competence of that someone.

[WHITT]

2. The MSM

will report it as a "loss" either way.

If he loses, the Dems are done and Biden is a one-termer. If he wins, they will say he barely squeaked through, bad news for Dems. Nevermind McAuliffe only won by 3 points in 2013.

[JudyM]

5. When is our leadership going to get this?!

It’s absurd to me that we have by far the better messages but by far the weakest messaging.