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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo 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.
Happyhippychick
(8,422 posts)A fucking landslide.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)cindyperry2010
(846 posts)sandyshoes17
(657 posts)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)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.
Gman
(24,780 posts)So our people will be scared shitless and go vote.
Bluefin Tuna
(54 posts)It wouldn't be very interesting for an audience if an Obama landslide had been predicted all the way from January through October.