Explain what "horse race journalism" means and analyze its impact on political campaign coverage
Answer:
An ideal response will:
1. Define horse race journalism as the media's tendency to comment more on who is ahead in the polls than on a candidate's actual positions on issues.
2. Explain how the obsession with "game," or tactics and strategies of the campaigns, that accompanies horse race journalism has the effect of displacing the coverage of political issues.
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