Horse Race Coverage/Media Bias

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/15/tea.party/index.html

The main focus of this story was on the Tea Party's nominations for positions, and its list of targeted lawmakers for the upcoming mid-term elections. The article is clearly biased towards the Tea Party because all the quotes in it are from Tea Party members, most of the mentions were of Tea Party candidates and the other candidates mentioned were mentioned because they were targets of the Tea Party. While I think the bias in this article was structural, the article definitely falls into the category of horse race coverage rather than issue coverage. The entire story focused on the Tea Party's "targets" and efforts to win or "defeat" certain candidates while focusing on very little substantial about the Tea Party candidates. If anything I think that this article was biased against the Tea Party, because while they are mentioned far more often, it reduces their message to one of mere election politicking rather than focusing on the issues they care about.