January 15, 2008
As 18 year olds prepare to vote for the first time, they now learn that the Democratic Party has handed over the determination of its nominee to the mass media and stripped the Democratic voters of their right to choose their nominee.

Stunned voters want to know why the Democratic Party allows ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and NPR to falsify information about the candidates to the point of causing voters to believe candidates running for President have dropped out of the race.  MSNBC has a link directly to Hillary Clinton's website.  ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and NPR are all telling the voters of Michigan that nobody on the Michigan Presidential ballot besides Hillary Clinton is still running for President.  This is a flat out lie.  Two other candidates on the Michigan ballot, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel, are still in the race.  The news media's false information resulted in a low Democratic turnout in Michigan and substantial voter confusion, today. 

In a decision that has only been paralelled by Bush v Gore in effect and loss of election integrity, the Nevada Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and allowed NBC to fix the Nevada caucuses by excluding Kucinich from tonight's debate in a seeming effort to convince Nevada voters he had dropped out of the race.  He has not.  Will voters learn NBC is misleading them?

The actions of the news media appears to amount to election tampering.  More disturbing is the silence of the Democratic National Committee, headed by Howard Dean, and by the Nevada Democratic Party.  This year, the Republican Party has shown more support for the voters than the Democratic Party. The Republican Party withdrew support for a debate that excluded Ron Paul.

In 2000, the Republican Party was seen as the Party that disregarded the interests of the voters.  This year, the Republican Party has worked to overturn that image.  The Democratic Party, sadly, is now seen as the corporate party that pushes aside the interests of the voters when those interests conflict with the interests of media corporations.

MSNBC is owned by General Electric, which makes large profits from continued war.  All the candidates on the stage at tonight's MSNBC debate brought America the Iraq war and/or its continuation.  All candidates on stage tonight have spoken in support of war with Iran. All Democratic peace candidates have been excluded.  Peace is not in MSNBC's interests.

The saddest part for Nevada residents is that they will not learn that all persons on the stage of the MSNBC Democratic debate in Las Vegas are responsible for the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository, which threatens the life of every person living in Nevada and California.  John Edwards voted to override Bill Clinton's veto of a temporary nuclear dump site.  Then Edwards voted with Bush to make Yucca Mountain a permanent nuclear dump site.  Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama voted to fund the project.  Scientists agree that Yucca Mountain is a disaster waiting to destroy the Southwest and possibly other regions as well.  By excluding Dennis Kucinich, the only candidate to vote against Yucca Mountain and its funding, MSNBC has put in a fix for the toxic project.

Where will peace supporters turn in the general election?  It probably won't be to the Democratic Party.  It is yet to be seen where the peace vote will go now that the Democratic Party has done everything to throw the peace vote away.

Those voting for the first time may make a difference by disregarding the media and just voting for the candidate of their choice.  In the general election, first time voters may want to look at primary debate exclusions and vote for candidates who got their nominations honestly and not through election tampering..

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