If you watch different sources of media, you can tell the difference. I haven't watched mainstream cable news(other than PBS) in years, because it's all bs, look at how CNN called the VP debate for Paul Ryan, when it wasn't clearly the case.
How is the avenge joe suppose to run for office if he's barely able to keep a roof over his head, and the only people in this country that run office seem to have a shit load of $$$ money laying around. If you don't have connections to the big shits in this country, you're nobody. If we had some decent campaign finance reform this could change, but until then that's a fucking fantasy.