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

[YoungDemCA]

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.