Why Is the "Horse Race" Approach to Covering a Campaign

question 24

Multiple Choice

Why is the "horse race" approach to covering a campaign often criticized?

• A) It seeks to emphasize the negatives of a candidate, such as a verbal slip-up, rather than the positive.
• B) It focuses too much on a candidate's past rather than on the current campaign.
• C) The focus is on campaigns, polls, money raised, and personalities rather than substantive issues.
• D) It neglects the workings of a campaign and focuses solely on the issues.
• E) It often provides minor party candidates with a disproportionate amount of coverage.

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Definitions:

Codon

A sequence of three nucleotides which together form a unit of genetic code in a DNA or RNA molecule.

Homogenized

Made uniform or similar in composition or structure; often refers to milk that has been processed to distribute fat evenly.

Introgression

The transfer of genetic information from one species to another as a result of hybridization between them and repeated backcrossing.

Hybridization

The process of mating or genetically combining individuals from two different species, strains, or varieties to produce hybrids.