lubab: "...Does Rupert Murdock play with these elections to maximize his profits?
Any thoughts about all this?..."
I'm afraid that there really are no more "elections" in the true sense of that word.
It's all a big "bought and sold" Infotainment industry.
No one is allowed to question anything whatsoever, unless they are ready to be "brutally escorted from the room and/or tased".
"They" create phony staged debates where only "they" may participate.
"They" script the questions which are allowed to be asked of "them".
Then, "they" hold phony mini-elections in which "their" own selected lackeys vote for "their" highest paying nominee.
The Rupert Mudochs of the world quite literally "own" the proceedings, pre-determine the inevitable results, with their paid lackeys such as Hannity, Colmes, Limbaugh, literally being handed scripts authored by "those above" which they are to follow as their "talking points" for each and every show.
And if there ever were any chances of "elections" picking the candidates, Diebolt & others have sold their electronic computerized "touch screen" voting machines, complete with "programmed software" which not only operates the machines, but algorithmically computes and then announces the "pre-selected" winner (all without benefit of a troublesome 'paper trail').
Benito Mussolini, founder of Fascism, once said "Fascism might best be called "Corporatism".
Our media more and more resembles that of the Third Reich or the USSR, designed to "create" the news rather than "report" the news, ridicule any and all opposing views, use "name-calling" to isolate and humiliate any true "journalists", and present a non-stop bewildering array of #1 headlines such as "Britney Spears...", "Angelina Jolie...", to obfuscate and serve as a decoy so that the public's attention remain diverted from anything of importance.