Where are the media safaris to local diners to ask average Democratic voters what they think?

[JHB]

Why, you'd think media outlets only do that sort of thing to hear what Republican voters have to say say (though they could save themselves the money and just get it from FOX)!

[Raven123]

1. Excellent point. They trip over themselves to get to GOP voters.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. You bring up a good point

[TwilightZone]

3. They ask Republicans because we're boring.

We'll be all reasonable and shit, while the Republicans will always say wacky and outlandish things. They're good for ratings.

I'm not (entirely) kidding, by the way. I'm pretty sure that's a big part of the reason.

[BannonsLiver]

10. Absolutely 100 percent

Coherent answers don’t make good TV.

On a similar line, I recently watched a YouTube video of a local news channel in a midwestern city doing interviews with people waiting to see Return of the Jedi in 1983. What was jarring about it wasn’t the clothes or hairstyles, it was the way people talked. In complete sentences. Using adult words. They didn’t sound like simpletons. It blew my mind.

[PatSeg]

18. Exactly

Those republican voters are like the man-on-the-street segments on some late night shows. They say such mindless crap, it is hard to believe anyone could be that stupid. I won't listen to those interviews. It is too depressing.

[chowder66]

20. I doubt we're all that boring now!

[TwilightZone]

21. There is that.

lol

[louslobbs]

4. Great question!

👍🏻

[ChicagoRonin]

5. We need to make our own

As much I have a love/hate relationship with social media, those up for this sort of task should make the effort and flood the internet.

Preferably someone younger than me. I'm not that tech or social medai saavy.

[Marcus IM]

6. Please don't say that you are shocked by the RW bias of corporate media.

I see a sh#t-ton of shock around here - by long time posters too - expressing shock.

I am shocked at the shock.

[JHB]

9. If I were shocked, would I have used the sarcasm smilie?

I'm about as shocked as Claude Rains' character upon being told that there was gambling going on at Rick's place.

[Hekate]

7. They long ago decided who is the "Real Authentic America" and where they live....

And it ain’t us, no matter where we live.

[ananda]

8. Lol. Because they know that Dems back Biden!

!!!

[dutch777]

11. Do we really think they would leave their spoon fed bubble existence and do some in-depth real journalism?

That's almost a good joke if the truth of it were not so sad for journalism, us and the country.

[SharonClark]

12. Well,, Dems aren't lazy jackasses who

spend hours a day sitting around jawboning with other jackasses.

We have work to do so we can subsidize their red states.

[NBachers]

13. Your post gets an endorsement.

[markodochartaigh]

17. This is absolutely true

[LeftInTX]

14. Don't give them ideas. I know a few Dems who want a switcharoo.

Additionally, they'll run into Republicans who will lie about their voting record.

[dobleremolque]

15. My guess would be it's because

Democrats would be at home eating healthy rather than exposing their arteries to all that grease.

[senseandsensibility]

16. K and R

Instead they are lying and claiming that the grassroots are telling them Joe must go, but it all hush hush because something....

[dlk]

19. We're being spoon-fed a chosen narrative

In a perfect world, we could rely on the mainstream media to support our democracy. In reality, the media corporations exist to make a profit for shareholders, first, last and always.

[hatrack]

22. Well, we're not Real Americans (TM) so our opinions don't count, and we don't exist . . . .

There, wasn't that easy?

[Takket]

23. Democrats are terrible for ratings

the media want people to spew horrific, violent, ignorant, and stupid stuff. that draws in the ratings!

Reasoned, fact filled, well reasoned answers that reflect the reality of situations are boring.

[Blue Full Moon]

24. There are no democratic voters🙂

We know differently. I was with a group of republicans that was surprised that someone had out a Biden sign. They actually said that they were taking a risk with their lives. I just thought they might be surprised how many of us there is. I don't put anything out any more and know others that won't either. I have noticed that there is a lot less trump stuff out.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

25. Only old farts in rural diners in Republican counties

are of any interest to the media.

[SamKnause]

26. They don't give a fuck what we think.

They don't think we are 'real' Americans.

[Bettie]

27. They don't want to know

what Democrats think.

They never have.

[betsuni]

28. During MSNBC convention coverage, youngish people were interviewed on the street in Milwaukee

and asked what they thought of the election. Weren't asked political affiliation, but definitely weren't Trumpers. They don't like either candidate, it's two old white guys (said two white women with a smirk). Didn't have anyone in particular they wanted to see run. They're all the same, who cares, was the attitude.

It would be nice to hear from actual Democrats.