{"id":1730820,"date":"2022-11-08T22:47:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730820"},"modified":"2022-11-08T22:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:47:33","slug":"media-cant-fathom-why-democracy-wasnt-a-top-concern-for-voters-who-spent-their-day-doing-the-whole-democracy-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-cant-fathom-why-democracy-wasnt-a-top-concern-for-voters-who-spent-their-day-doing-the-whole-democracy-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Can\u2019t Fathom Why \u2018Democracy\u2019 Wasn\u2019t A Top Concern For Voters Who Spent Their Day Doing The Whole Democracy Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-cant-fathom-why-democracy-wasnt-a-top-concern-for-voters-who-spent-their-day-doing-the-whole-democracy-thing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Election results hadn\u2019t even started rolling in yet when the Very Smart People covering election night for CNN began making fools of themselves with their go-to 2022 talking point: democracy on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers in these [exit polls] do not line up with what we were seeing in the polling data going into this election about what people cared about and the order in which they ranked it,\u201d announced the network\u2019s Chief National Affairs Analyst Kasie Hunt, stating what was obvious to anyone who understands that polls aren\u2019t primarily designed to reflect public opinion; they\u2019re intended to shape it to benefit Democrats and rack up donor dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If CNN\u2019s out-of-touch poll analysis is a joke, then the punchline came from CNN\u2019s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash: \u201cAnd you know what\u2019s missing from this \u2014 one, two, three, four, five \u2014 top-five issues? Democracy. It\u2019s not even in here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not shocking that \u201cdemocracy\u201d doesn\u2019t crack the top list of issues on the minds of voters, who care far more about how much it cost them in gas money just to get to their polling place and what gender-bending nonsense their kids could be learning in math class at the very moment they were casting their ballots. What <em>is<\/em> shocking is that the media elites nestled inside the Acela Corridor and D.C. Beltway ever thought Americans were buying the \u201cdemocracy under threat\u201d propaganda they were selling. Of course, \u201cdemocracy\u201d is not a top issue for a voter who has just finished casting a ballot \u2014 the most fundamental way he participates in democracy.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m SHOCKED that voters\u2019 #1 concern after freely taking part in the democratic process isn\u2019t \u2728democracy\u2728 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4K0uV8fkhH\">https:\/\/t.co\/4K0uV8fkhH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kylee Griswold (like the family vacation) (@kyleezempel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\/status\/1590123161001299971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>As President Joe Biden and his administrative state ran the country into the ground in the midterm lead-up, voters repeatedly voiced their <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/17\/democrats-are-desperate-to-distract-from-the-real-issues-plaguing-voters-as-nov-8-nears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concerns<\/a> loud and clear. Americans suffering under unsustainable gas prices and grocery bills have consistently cited inflation as their No. 1 issue, followed by the economy and jobs generally, and then the humanitarian crisis at the southern border that\u2019s been seeping into non-border states. Out-of-control crime and drugs are next on the list, with the left trying and failing to scare Americans into worrying above all else about a woman\u2019s \u201cright\u201d to kill her preborn child and about \u201cdemocracy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Add to those concerns Americans\u2019 exasperation with the sexualization of their kids in schools funded by their own tax dollars, the continued dumping of beaucoup bucks into a foreign war and even more to satisfy climate alarmists, and nagging memories of the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal, Covid tyranny, and every time Democrats feigned \u201cnothing to see here\u201d for an incoherent Biden. Election Day motivations are no mystery.<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist\u2019s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/07\/democracy-isnt-at-risk-democrats-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> this week, \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to say whether the \u2018democracy at risk\u2019 pitch speaks more of desperation or of stupidity, but either way, the promotion of this buzz-phrase in the final days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy was never on the ballot. 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