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Originally Posted by deadbeater

The media wants to get on with the election, and skip the conventions.

The media could give a rat's ass about the election or the conventions or whatever *as long as you're watching, especially the commercials*.

You'll do well to keep this in mind as you allocate your eyeball minutes this election season.

Allllll that talk about how expensive campaigning is? I'll tell you this, the cost of yard signs isn't the biggest expense. It's not office space rental. It's AIR TIME. The candidates, all of them with no exceptions, have to raise buxor to be able to be heard/seen. And that means media exposure. $$$$.

You do the math.

Sure, the process and the eventual (inevitable outcome--*somebody's* gonna be President) is important. But along the way, their main goal, their commercial imperative, is to make money. Their sole stock in trade is airtime.