I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.
I don't think that the press in 2004 was any more unfair to Bush than they were to Kerry.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public.
I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.
The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.