Media impact on the special election

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:50:16 -0500, Richard Chonak <rac@gabrielmass.com> said:

> To bring this back to where it began:
> On 01/22/2010 09:54 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:

>> I was talking with Scott on Tuesday night, and he pointed out to me
>> that traditionally Republican parts of Western Mass. voted
>> overwhelmingly for Coakley over Brown, whereas people within the
>> Boston market went the other way.  I don't know if the final results
>> show the same pattern, but if they do, it may say something
>> interesting about the impact of the mass media on the election.

> If you want to check how well those bore out in the final results, the 
> Globe's map and figures are still on-line:
> http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/senate/results.html

> There certainly are curious juxtapositions: Blandford went 62% for 
> Brown, while _neighboring_ Becket went 62% for Coakley.

Blandford is in the Springfield TV market, whereas Becket is in the
Albany TV market.[1]  I rest my case.

-GAWollman

[1] For satellite local-into-local; zap2it.com doesn't know of any
local cable systems.