Bodies in the street images in front page coverage and run on TV coverage probably turned away a good amount of people in America who like their conflict’s to end bloodless and quickly…..
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The economy isn’t getting much better with higher interest rates and gas/oil still relatively high….
And?
President Biden seems disinterested in the situation, which is NO surprise….
Joe Biden dislikes military conflicts…
The war was crowding out news with more relevance to ordinary Americans, was arguable in early March but not true by mid-April.
Last week, the war was the lead story most of the time on the three traditional evening news broadcasts, on CBS, NBC and ABC. The most frequent coverage topic was the sinking of a Russian missile cruiser; the most-covered story the rest of the week was the pursuit and capture of the New York City subway shooter.
Voters, in the same period, were drifting to other topics. Last week’s Ipsos tracking poll found just 8 percent of voters believing that “war and foreign conflicts” most important problem facing the country, down more than half since March; three times as many said that the “economy” worried them the most. In a new YouGov poll, 44 percent of them said that affairs in Ukraine matters “a lot” to America; more said it mattered “a little” or not at all…
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In another one of the most recent polls that asked voters about Ukraine, from Quinnipiac University, most adults by far said that “the worst” in the war was yet to come, but none were happy with the American response. Just 40 percent of voters approved of how the president was handling America’s response; 69 percent believed the country had a “moral responsibility to do more to stop the killing of civilians in Ukraine.”…
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So why aren’t candidates who demand America do more in Ukraine talking more about it, or rising in the polls when they do? The simplest explanation is that it has moved down their list of concerns, and they’re not alone in that….
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BTW?
Covid likewise is falling in media coverage even as cas’s rise….