Obama & McCain Polls Treated Differently in MSM

Map captured from Electoral-Vote.com

Here is an interesting little story, for those of you who believe there is such a thing as a liberally biased media. Remember back in the primaries, when the press was bringing John McCain donuts, and fawning over his spectacular resurgence against his Republican rivals? McCain openly called the press "his base." At the time, Barack Obama was fighting for survival against Hillary Clinton, and the press was all over him for the Rev. Wright issue. Relentlessly. Ridiculously.

Then, after Obama clinched the Democratic primary, the media gathered 'round. After all, as the first African-American major candidate, there was more interest than there would be for an old white guy who's been in the Senate forever. That's only natural. As Obama's popularity swelled, McCain went sour on the press, declaring most of them "in the tank" for Obama.

This is despite the fact that--outside of opinion shows like Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and the entirety of FOX "News"--the mainstream press is actually fairly balanced, even ridiculously so. They go to great lengths to show "both sides," even when one side is clearly wrong. If McCain said that the moon was made of green cheese, the press would give Obama's argument that the moon is not made of cheese, and would present it as a he-said/he-said. They're terrified of being branded as biased.

McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, are still on the warpath anyway, taking every opportunity to get digs in at NBC News or The New York Times, and their crowds--trained for years to believe the liberal bias myth by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity--eat it up.

But, check this out. In a comparison of tons of data, Daily Kos has found an alarming disparity between the ways polling is being represented for Obama vs. McCain. Though almost every single poll has Obama far and away in the lead, it isn't being presented that way. Read on. . .

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Media nonsense

Every state in which McCain has a lead, even if it's just 2.2%, is a "leaning Republican". Every state in which Obama has the lead, even if it's over 10 percent, is a "battleground". . .

The key point is that all small media election projection websites, including the Republican Election Projection and Real Clear Politics, have Obama over 270 electoral votes. This is because polls now objectively show that Obama is well over 270 electoral votes. However, none of the big, and so-called liberal, media websites show Obama over 270 right now. Every single one is even more favorable to McCain than Real Clear Politics. . .

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