Time and Newsweek may have opted to shift their chief news focus away from the GOP and bury the Keystone decision as fast as possible, but the only question that will matter come November is: Will the public buy it?
Energy has become a hot button election issue. President Obama's State of the Union address and his decision to reject TransCanada's application to build the Keystone pipeline crystallized the fact. The language of the GOP presidential candidates post-Keystone was suitably pithy. Gingrich intoned it "a stunningly stupid thing to do"; Romney cited the move as "shocking" and "revealing". But just as the GOP candidate race is turning into a drawn out war of attrition, the mainstream media mood music has changed.
