The news coverage today should tell you what we're up against [View all]

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The most repeated thing I heard today was that Mitt Romney easily defeated his republican rivals in New Hampshire. No mention of the 50% he had polled in the week preceding the vote. No mention of the President's 80% or so vote. Just reports that Romney won, as if he'd already locked up the election, much less the republican nomination that he's barely begun to amass delegates for.

It's a frustrating situation in the press where the republicans are portrayed as generating support from voters without context which would show that each candidate still trails our Democratic president, and with the context that Romney's showing is actually pathetic for a contest right next door to his home state.

I realize that cable news may well have more comprehensive coverage, but the rest of the media is lost this morning in portraying Romney's win as a supreme anointment. It's going to be a hard, long campaign in the media for Democrats. This morning's coverage proves that our President and party will need to work overtime to portray our nominee as dynamic and competitive in the months ahead.