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YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 06:29 PM Sep 2012

So I guess the talking point has been, and still is, "this election will be close"...

The polls show that Obama has a consistent lead in several key swing states (Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, New Hampshire). Romney has pulled his ads in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and he has made blunder after blunder in his campaign, with one of the largest and most damaging of these being his attack on Obama's response to the Benghazi attack.

Yet still, I hear from pundits and commentators, repeated sometimes by ordinary people: "This election will be close, right down to the wire."

We know that much of the "mainstream" media is nothing more than a thinly veiled pro-corporate (and in cases like Fox News, unabashedly Republican-partisan) operation, of a very small number of conglomerates. The (negative) implications for America's democratic process have been demonstrated in the past few decades. And it's only getting worse.



Let's stop pretending that the mainstream media has not taken sides here. They aren't unbiased, and they are not on the side of the People.

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So I guess the talking point has been, and still is, "this election will be close"... (Original Post) YoungDemCA Sep 2012 OP
They said the same thing in 2008. Obama won 365 to 173. In other words Happyhippychick Sep 2012 #1
They've taken the side of trying to get as much ad money as possible thelordofhell Sep 2012 #2
And thanks to Citizen United, that ad money is a LOT!!! n/t arcane1 Sep 2012 #5
this is how it really looks cindyperry2010 Sep 2012 #3
The media may do it for the ad money sandyshoes17 Sep 2012 #4
Who would watch or read them if they said it's all over? frazzled Sep 2012 #6
I want them saying its very close Gman Sep 2012 #7
Keeps things interesting Bluefin Tuna Sep 2012 #8

sandyshoes17

(657 posts)
4. The media may do it for the ad money
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 06:47 PM
Sep 2012

But it is very convenient for Rove and crew to steal the election. As long as people perceive the race as close it wouldn't shock them if Romney won. I don't like it. They couldn't do it if it seemed impossible. It's all in the perception.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
6. Who would watch or read them if they said it's all over?
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 06:51 PM
Sep 2012

It's their livelihood, and it's why God invented the notion of "likely" voters. Our duty is to ignore it.
They'll get real a few weeks before the election.

 

Bluefin Tuna

(54 posts)
8. Keeps things interesting
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 07:12 PM
Sep 2012

It wouldn't be very interesting for an audience if an Obama landslide had been predicted all the way from January through October.

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