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by Barbara Morrill
With all of the whining Mitt Romney has done about the left-wing media conspiracy against him, there are two important things to say. One: Shut up. Two: Shut up.
In fact, let's make that three things ... remember last week when the first couple of daily tracking polls from Gallup came out, showing Romney leading President Obama by a whopping few points? Here are just a few (emphasis on "few" of the breathless headlines that day:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/23/1085767/-Gallup-daily-tracking-from-BREAKING-NEWS-to-crickets
FSogol
(45,526 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,450 posts)libinnyandia
(1,374 posts)emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)He has staff for that.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)out of them re: funding. Whenever they talk about Obama, it's pretty much in negative terms, and a lot of gossip mongering passing itself off as news. I want my old NPR back.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)now to be "unbiased." Which means they are afraid to criticize Republicans
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)kayakjohnny
(5,235 posts)Not to mention the AP just harping and harping on the SS story. Looking for every possible embarrassing angle... and breach of security.... and comes from the top and blah fucking blah blah blah.....
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)You'll have plenty of time to spend at that house.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)Didn't get ,uch play with the Media.
It sure should have ~
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Here we go again, kids.
I hope that there are more web savvy folks around this time than there were in '08. It should be harder to make the lies stick this time around.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Unless the number calling is that of a relative or business associate, I don't answer. People like me don't reply to polls, so we get undercounted.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)"RASMUSSEN POLL SHOWS ROMNEY LEADING OBAMA BY 50 POINTS!"
And when I say "always" I mean it literally. That's what Rasmussen ALWAYS says. That, and the five or ten percent lead they always say Congressional/Generic Republicans have over Generic Democrats.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)That has to tighten. Romney is so low that if I had money to gamble with i would buy Romney now for a post convention profit taking.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)Obama now leading R-money 49-42...
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150743/Obama-Romney.aspx
flamingdem
(39,321 posts)So, back to normal