Campaign '96: rating the media

摘要

What a difference a day makes. Last summer, as the Iowa Republican Party was preparing to hold its $25-a-vote, everyone-who-pays-is-welcome presidential straw poll, the press ridiculed the vote as meaningless. The Boston Globe noted that rival candidates were rounding up busloads of out-of-state "voters" and regaling them with free barbecue, T-shirts and celebrity drop-bys. "Rivals Stack the Deck in Iowa's Straw Poll," the New York Times reported.