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I suspect "they" don't see a need to correct every outlandish thing some kook says, much as Republicans often don't see a need to rebut something an extremist associated with their party has said.  

Then they are allowing the extreme nut cases in the party, define them all.

The funny part is, when this whole thing came up then SCOTUS candidate Justice Brown not being able to define what a women was, I asked a friend that votes Dem about that and she defended her saying that we really don't know how to differentiate between men and women. This person is not a radical left wing nut job, but did not want to admit to the idiocy being spouted by the party she supports, that she could not argue against them.

People have lost their minds these days.

I suspect "they" don't see a need to correct every outlandish thing some kook says, much as Republicans often don't see a need to rebut something an extremist associated with their party has said.  For one thing, it calls attention to it, and for another, it would be nonstop.  And of course it affords good grist for Fox News to highlight (or MSNBC in reverse).

Many news outlets to me seem to be almost entirely focused on what silliness someone in the other party  may have done.

I suspect the timing has more to do with falling oil prices than a US election.

Most folks won't really notice a 10% increase in gasoline prices enough to alter their vote.