Say What You Will About Andrew Sullivan, He Nails It In This Post

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25. I gotta wonder

. . . to what degree do bloggers and our more visible and 'elevated' writers with access to high-profile web sites feel their own contributions matter or are influential in this process. I query this because, there seems to be a disconnect between their waste of print space over Obama's perceived failures in that staged event; yet, so little time spent (contrary to the relentless efforts of the Obama campaign post-debate) to highlight Romney's lies and help de-legitimatize his entire performance based on his total fabrication of . . .everything. The Obama campaign recovered quickly. The point-shift in the polls was contrived by a switch right after the debate to their contrived and bogus 'likely voter' models. Completely fabricated polls were also included in the averages, inflating what likely was no more than a couple point boost for Romney. That meager rise was to be expected, just from allowing him on the stage with the POTUS; just from the visibility. That little shift in the polls took some folks by surprise and I think they overreacted. After all, it was clearly a devastatingly negative press - which was openly and wantonly encouraged by some of our Obama-friendly critics of that debate - that cemented the theatrical impression of a 'win' on a rack of lies, and a 'loss' for a man acting like we expect our Presidents to.