A Quinnipiac University Poll released this week showed Sen. Barack Obama ahead of Sen. John McCain, with Obama’s rank heavily influenced by responses from women and blacks. But the poll also revealed some interesting figures related to the economy. Media outlets are focused on negatives related to the economy, but the poll shows voters may not be too concerned about their personal economies, even if 53 percent of them say the US economy is the single most important issue in their vote. I was startled when I read the responses.

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Sen. Barack Obama’s healthcare plan cuts a wide path through the current road most Americans take. Besides hoping to expand Medicaid, in a series of recent speeches to Hispanic groups, he moved towards Sen. Hillary Clinton’s plan, hoping to provide a refundable credit of up to 50 percent on premiums paid by small businesses on behalf of their employees. ABC News says, “The Obama campaign estimates that this tax credit would cost $6 billion.” Obama chose to speak about this most recently to the National Council of La Raza, said ABC, telling the audience, “…small businesses are the engines of economic prosperity—especially in Latino communities.” But the senator hasn’t come up with a way to define a small business to determine eligibility for the tax credit. ABC said an Obama spokesman explained those details will be “…worked out with Congress.”

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TV One plans to cover the Democratic National Convention and even the Wrap Parties, but CEO Johnathan Rodgers has no plans to bring the Republican National Convention to his audience. According to the Associated Press, TV One reaches 43.7 million households—almost one half of homes in the US with TVs. The network targets African-American adults. Rodgers told the AP and other news media, “We are not a news organization.” He said if Sen. Hillary Clinton were the nominee, TV One wouldn’t cover it. Rodgers based his reasoning on the fact Sen. Barack Obama’s nomination is a “historic event.”

A reporter covering the Television Critics Association press tour asked questions about TV One’s decision to only present one political party convention.

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It’s a touchy point with me, the matter of Sen. John McCain’s age. Media just can’t talk about it enough—the latest is an Associated Press story that (again) explores how voters feel about the matter. Seems like only yesterday the Democratic Party as well as media maintained an obsession with equal rights for all including those who don’t belong to Gen X. The AP story says Democrats have “broached the age issue indirectly…”

Democrats don’t have to broach the issue. Progressive mainstream media does it for them.

I’ve written about this before, but every time I see this (and I have seen it a lot), I get really angry. Here’s why—media’s preoccupation with age only began with John McCain. If we’re going to explore age, let’s be fair and take a look at select Democratic seniors, older than McCain, who exert serious control over our government. Some might call the situation a “chokehold.”

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California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) may be suffering from ‘Wikipedia Syndrome’ as evidenced by his comments during an interview with progressive pundit George Stephanopoulos. Schwarzenegger’s criticism of the Bush administration’s position on global warming drew a number of lively comments at the ABC News blog Political Radar. Some commenters opted to use heated terms in somewhat inflammatory responses, such as street terminology for a female dog and another word representing the act of copulation. A great deal of possibly suspect information is posted about global warming. Unfortunately ABC News and many alarmists are apparently unaware they are politically incorrect at the moment. The Environmental Protection Agency is suggesting global warming be retooled as climate change. The EPA website notes, “The phrase ‘climate change’ is growing in preferred use to ‘global warming’ because it helps convey that there are changes in addition to rising temperatures.”

Schwarzenegger said of Bush, “This administration did not believe in global warming.” He also touted the state of California, noting the state’s position as the “forefront” in addressing the environmental conflagration (both figurative and literal.)

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Popular opinion holds that mainstream media and Web content lean Democratic, and a cursory look at campaign donations by professionals lends weight to that opinion. Even without figures, it’s easy to compare story lines for the candidates. Sen. Barack Obama spends 20 years in a church led by a pastor who damns America from the pulpit and media accepts the senator’s explanation he didn’t hear words of hate during the whole time he attended the church. But former senator Phil Gramm mentions whining, and the media not only takes his comments out of context, they make it sound like he stomped on a puppy. Media overwhelmingly want sunshine in government, even on classified military situations. But media is not so accommodating when it comes to in-house sunshine.

I spent part of this morning using an interactive tool at The Orlando Sentinel. The tool allows you to look up campaign donations by profession, by name, by employer and by just about any other search term applicable. I admit this isn’t a scientific study, but I used identical search terms for each candidate.

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