Election Results Lies

Do you think you are getting the true election results when you watch the evening news? Think again. You probably know that the networks report their "projections" long before the votes are counted (and sometimes before the polls are closed). What you may not know is that they don't report the true results, even after the votes are counted.

I'll get to that in a moment, but first I have to tell you about a phone call I recently received. It was a computer, trying to get my responses to a political survey. Never mind what the rest of the questions were, because the first one points immediately to the real problem here. It was, "Do you consider yourself a Republican or Democrat?"

Is that a rigged question or what? Is that an honest survey? I don't consider myself to be either, so I have to lie or be excluded from the survey. That question points out a major flaw in the reporting on political issues, which is the premise that there are just two political parties in this country. Do you know how many political parties get hundreds of thousands of votes in this country in each election?

Unfortunately, this premise that we only have two important parties is firmly established in our media. This is why the results of elections are not accurately reported. The following true story shows how this happens.

I was watching the television news coverage of the presidential election in 1980. News program after news program claimed that Reagan got 55% of the vote, and Carter 45%. Notice that adds up to 100%? What happened to the other votes?

In reality Libertarians, Independents (like John Anderson) and others got over 7 million votes, or 9% of all votes. Reagan had 50% of the votes, and Carter 41%, by the way. If they wanted to be honest about it, the reporters could have at least said, "Of the votes we consider important, Reagan got 55%, and Carter got 45%."

This wasn't a conspiracy. They were just adding up only the votes for the two major parties and dividing to get his percentages. That they would forget or exclude the other votes is indicative of how powerful an implied premise can be.

There are other political parties, and not reporting their vote tallies limits their exposure. Maybe we would have some real electable alternatives to the Republicans and Democrats if more people knew that they existed.

Discover more lies in the e-book "99Lies", and more on political manipulation and how to get the real news in Chapters Six and Four of "You Aren't Supposed To Know - A Book Of Secrets, " at: http://www.TheSecretInformationSite.com/99lies.html

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