Two Shorts Articles

Buried within the paper today is an article titled "Complaint Alleges Campaign Violations." The writers at Star Tribune must have realized this article wasn't very significant to the public. The article has only had 6 comments online since it was posted last night. The article covers the details of a complaint about campaign finance violations. With only two direct quotes, the article is quite short.

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On the other hand, a very short article published yesterday has gained lots of attention with over 1000 comments. Why? Because the article published yesterday falls into the category of horse race coverage. The article titled "Poll: Dayton with wide lead over Emmer" very briefly reports the results of a Minnesota Poll about the governor's race.

Just a month ago, the two candidates were even at 34 percent. But, the latest survey shows Dayton with 38 percent of 750 likely Minnesota voters and Emmer with 27 percent.

Independence Party candidate Tom Horner garnered 16 percent of likely voters in the survey conducted Wednesday through Sunday. The poll also shows more than one in five Republicans, or 22 percent, plan to vote for Horner instead of Emmer.

The article has zero quotes and is less than ten paragraphs, but the information is very important to voters who are interested in the "game."

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