“READERS FORUM” OCTOBER 26, 2016

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WHATS ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

Todays “READERS POLL” question is: Do you think that newspapers should endorse political canidates?

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  1. They have for centuries…so why change it ? Only roughly ~20 % of the population read newspapers today anyway. They do rarely change e my vote, but I like to read about their logic.

    • After watching these establishment “newspapers” (propaganda outlets) play out their ground game in the lead up to the vote their “endorsements” are the most anticlimactic thing one can imagine. This local newspaper would not go near an article like the one below.

    • Totally agree. If you make up your mind on who you vote for strictly because of a endorsement from any media outlet you’re a uniformed voter. Both left and right wing media outlets have their opinions. It’s the voters responciblity to sort out the BS and vote for who THEY want. Please vote.

    • I agree with you Dan. I realize that everyone has a bias just like I do. And every newspaper is owned by someone who hires a editor or two who also have their own biases. So when I read a newspaper endorsement I take it with a big grain of salt. And if the news paper is too biased to one party vs the other and it’s not the party I like then I WON’T Buy that newspaper nor will I shop with the people who place ads in that particular newspaper. So anyone advertising with said news paper needs to remember this.

      And as Dr. Dan said, not everyone reads the news papers these days. Especially those that charge a fee (subscription) to gain access to their online newspapers. Charging a fee to me is GREEDY. I can see charging a fee for a printed paper as there are major costs involved in reporting, editing, printing and delivering the paper copy. But I think that the online edition is much less expansive to make. So to subject the client to ads and then a monthly subscription fee is just over the top. Greedy. Besides I may not agree with the bias news slant of said newspaper.

      It’s too bad that Evansville doesn’t have more than one printed newspaper. Maybe some real completion in the form of another print copy might make them all a little less biases.

      At least there are now many blogs or online papers to read and choose from. I really don’t need to read the Evansville Courier and Press anymore. I get most all my news from other sources that are organized in a better way. The EC&P online edition has way too many popup adds that cover the page that I’m trying to read. Please make note. People who buy these adds that irritate me will not get my business. PERIOD. I take names and make lists of who not to do business with. St. Mary’s you are top of my list right now. Your pop up add in the EC&P online edition goes way too far. I will go to another hospital if given the chance. So the CEO of St. Mary’s need to have a talk with there person in charge of advertising and find another way to advertise for St. Mary’s Hospital. Because making your potential customers mad is not a good way to do business IMHO.

      And as Dan Said I know who I’m voting for and no newspaper editor is going to change my mind the last 14 days before the election. I already have my ballot and will be filling it out very soon.

      I think it’s foolish to believe that one can change someone else’s vote by telling them fairy tails about those that are running for office at the last minute.

      BTW: Dan is one of the better City Council Members. I trust a guy with degrees from Harvard and Yale and a generally good guy over someone like Missy or Jonathan. Dan gets along with other people and generally tries to be polite. He may vote the way he wants but he’s nice about it. People could learn a thing or two about Dr. Dan. I use to play Ice Hockey with Dr. Dan years ago and we had a lot of fun in those games. There were several other medical doctors and PHD’s that played in our league. I noticed that they were allow very well liked among the other players. And everyone knew who would share the puck and who were the puck hogs. That tells a lot about a person. They play the game of life much as they play the game of Ice Hockey.

      I bet that many of you didn’t know that Dan also played college Ice hockey for either Harvard University or Yale University. I can’t remember which. We were hockey enthusiast long before the Ice men came to town.

      Evansville needs to start electing better candidates to the City Council and the Mayor’s Office. They should have listened to people like John Friend when he was telling them about the over spending and the unbalanced budget. Ann needs to either speak up and tell the truth or get off the council if she is too scared to do her job properly.

      IMHO the EC&P is still nothing more than a rag to put in the bottom of the bird cage or on the floor for the dog to do it’s business on. It’s a waste of good trees.

  3. Newspapers are not supposed to endorse candidates,their job is to have reporters that investigate the news and put it down on paper ,they aren’t supposed to create news by endorsing someone

  4. The C&P decoyed me to the article by Langehorne supposedly about last night’s gubernatorial debate at USI, but instead, the article was about what the reporter(he wishes) had hoped was in the debate and wasn’t. So, he went to his candidate and got what he wanted for his editorial piece, thus leaving the readers to wonder what was really debated.

  6. Anybody hear from elkaybee (Laura) lately? I have not read any of her posts recently (or in the last few days), so I am wondering if she is OK

    • She’s probably bedridden with junklinkitis.

      Trying to read too many junk links usually posted by junkies by definition.

      Believe me….

      • I believe you. 🙂 She was at the junklinkos meeting last night. Hello, my name is IE…

        • Then as you well know, it can lead into full blown bamspamitis if not treated properly.

          By the way, did JoeBiden do a good job presiding over the meeting?

          And wasn’t it kind of chilly sitting out in the open in the amphitheater?….

  7. If a news source wants to remain unbiased, then it can not do so by endorsing candidates.

    • Or banning people it disagrees with.

      Clicked over to C&P and saw where Laura posted there 22 hours ago.

      Think I’ll ban myself before the coward gets the satisfaction.

      Later….

      • I really hope that Laura was not banned from here. She posts about the polls a lot and that’s a good thing. But if people like her are banned because they like other candidates that the CCO endorses then that’s not a good thing. There should be no bias in here as there should be no bias in any other newspaper. But as I said above in my response to Dr. Dan all people have a bias. Those that learn to be fair and suppress their biases are the good ones.

      • Regulator, don’t ban yourself. You had the best post of the year recently. I suspect LKB is in therapy since Hillary has not yet claimed victory.

      • She is most likel out registering voters for the democrats. AKA grave digging.

      • The Courier banned me several years ago when I was posting under the name of Puchin. I even got called Vladimir Puchin a couple of times. Being banned was a badge of honor.

    • Hillary’s minions need to call Olivia Pope. She will clean that mess up right now and look pretty darn good doing it.

  11. Might as well rename this site Trump news. Pathetic site with a readership of about 15. Just popped back in to check on you losers.

  15. Not only will Hillary Clinton be our next President but she will have a Democratic Controlled Senate and House of Representatives. And there will be lots of investigations on Donald Trump and his running mates.

  17. VOTERS ROLLS OFF BY 189,000 IN RHODE ISLAND!

    By Paul Edward Parker
    Journal Staff Writer

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island’s voter rolls contain as many as 189,000 more names than they should, a Providence Journal analysis shows.

    Based on estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, Rhode Island would be expected to have 592,672 registered voters.

    But the state has 781,770 people listed as eligible to vote in the Nov. 8 election, according to the voter registration database maintained by Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea. That’s an excess of 189,098.

    “Oh, my! Wow! Holy crap!” Brandon S. Bell, the state’s Republican Party chairman said in reaction to The Journal’s analysis. “I have to wrap my head around this, but that’s a really huge number.”

    After digesting it a bit further, he continued. “I wouldn’t want to throw out words like ‘fraud’ and ‘rigged,’ ” he said. “The integrity of the entire system is at stake.”
    How many eligible voters?

    To register to vote, one must be a U.S. citizen and age 18 or older. A total of 784,997 Rhode Islanders meet those criteria.

    Men

    Women

    Total

    Native-born

    336,819

    373,122

    709,941

    Naturalized immigrant

    33,628

    41,428

    75,056

    All citizens

    370,447

    414,550

    784,997

    SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2015 one-year estimates

    “Donald Trump talks about voter fraud,” said Rep. Joseph Trillo, the Republican presidential candidate’s honorary state campaign chairman. “If this is the case that there’s this many people, this is really of concern. What are the safeguards that these 189,000 people can’t vote in two jurisdictions?”

    “Voter fraud is very rare,” said Gorbea, a Democrat. “Elections are community exercises. There’s a lot of people involved.”

    That would make it very hard for people to commit fraud by voting in place of someone else, she said.
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    “I don’t buy that,” Trillo said. “Nobody does.”

    Rep. Joseph McNamara, the state’s Democratic Party chairman, said state law requiring voters to show identification to enter the polls would block fraud.

    “I think it would be extremely difficult today for someone to vote who is fraudulent,” McNamara said. “I have complete confidence in the system.”

    Gorbea said that Rhode Islanders can “absolutely” trust the integrity of the state’s elections.

    The two most common ways that people are found on voter rolls when they shouldn’t be there is when officials don’t realize that voters have moved or died.

    Under Gorbea — who was elected in 2014, in part on a promise to clean up the voter rolls — the state has joined a multistate consortium called ERIC (Electronic Registration Information Center) in which states share information when someone registers to vote or changes their address with the motor vehicle department. That allows voters’ previous states to start the process of removing them from the voter list.

    But the state just entered that program this year, Gorbea said, and has been hampered by state law that bars removing someone within 90 days of an election. With three elections this year — presidential primary, state primary and general election — that didn’t leave much time to clean up the lists.

    And, she said, it’s not a speedy process. “We’re going to be doing this for the next five years,” she said. “We absolutely have to make sure our voter registration lists are up to date and accurate.”

    Based on the percentage of people who were registered to vote in the 2008 presidential election — a historic election with high voter interest — and the number of adults in Rhode Island who are citizens, Rhode Island would be expected to have 592,672 registered voters.

    In 2014, The Journal performed an analysis using the same methodology, and found that the state had 180,000 more people on the voter rolls than should have been there. But later numbers from the Census Bureau, showing a much lower rate of registration that year, showed that the true difference was probably closer to 250,000.

    That means the gap may have shrunk over the last two years.

    But the numbers don’t sit well with Trillo.

    “If there’s 189,000 people … there’s something very, very wrong going on,” he said. “It could just be pure stupidity or incompetence. But it’s surely going to end up in unfair elections. Guaranteed it’s going to benefit the Democrats.”

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