You mean like the freedom of the press where in 2004, the NY Times spiked Risen and Lichtblau's story about NSA dragnet surveillance? This was in the fall of a

You mean like the freedom of the press where in 2004, the NY Times spiked Risen and Lichtblau's story about NSA dragnet surveillance? This was in the fall of a Presidential election year, where GW Bush, a fairly unpopular president was running as a war president and ended up winning by a very small popular vote margin? How will I tell? Even fewer democrats get elected, despite republicans running with terrible approval ratings?