Reply #1: You missed one rather obvious source, and probably the biggest... [View All]

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Other people. Friends, family, acquaintances, etc. I'd argue that culture and environment are more important than the media, particularly in the red states.

If most of your friends and acquaintances are liberal or most are conservative, it often won't matter what the media says. Politics is embedded in who people are, and their political allegiances aren't as easily swayed by the media as many would like to believe.

If people are so easily swayed, why is nearly half of the population still Democrat? With the constant barrage of conservative media over the past few years, it doesn't seem to have had much net effect.

This is particularly true in conservative America. Many, many people vote Republican for no reason other than that their parents or grandparents did or all of their friends do. Well, that, and the fact that red America IS conservative.

Changing the media isn't going to magically turn them into liberals. Changing the media isn't enough to win the red states. Conservatism is in the culture, so we either need to figure out how to change the culture (good luck) or provide a strong enough alternative to the status quo to convince people to cross over.