The State of the Presidential Race
The Bear on Sep 18 2008 at 4:17 am | Filed under: Election 08’
Seeing Through Obamanomics By Jeff Jacoby
All through the spring and summer, opinion polls tracked a growing confidence that Barack Obama could handle the economy better than John McCain. Just before the Democratic convention in August, Gallup had Obama leading McCain on the economy, 54-38 — a 16-point margin. But now Obama’s lead has nearly vanished. Gallup’s latest numbers, released Sept. 10, show the candidates nearly tied. Just 48 percent say Obama would be more adept at superintending the economy; 45 percent choose McCain.
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GOP’S GAINING By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
THE two party con ventions and the trend of recent events have moved America more toward the Republican Party than it has been at any time this year, data from the latest Fox News survey suggest. The nation still trends Democratic, but less so than it has during this entire election season.
The most dramatic manifestation of this reversal is, of course, in the head-to-head ballot test of John McCain vs. Barack Obama. While Fox News had Obama ahead by 42-39 in its August 19-20 survey, its poll for September 8-9 shows McCain ahead by 45-42. Obama hasn’t changed, but McCain has moved up six points.
Florida, Pennsylvania breaking for McCain?
As if the Barack Obama needed any more bad news, the St. Petersburg Times and Zogby both deliver cause for pessimism at Team O. Florida polling shows that despite spending millions in advertising in the Sunshine State and a delay in advertising for McCain, Obama is in worse position that John Kerry at the same time in 2004. Zogby has new polling that shows Obama now trails in Pennsylvania, a must-hold state for the Democrats.
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American Tsunami: We’ve All Had it With the MSM By Arnold Ahlert
Hundreds of angry people in this small town outside Milwaukee taunted reporters and TV crews traveling with Sen. John McCain on Friday, chanting “Be fair!” and pointing fingers at a pack of journalists as they booed loudly.”–Washington Times, Sept 5th.
Isolated incident? Don’t bet on it. Americans are disgusted with the Fourth Estate, maybe more so now than at any other time in modern history. And despite what many people in the field believe, from network executives in corporate suites to reporters in the hinterlands, the anger “we the people” are demonstrating is not merely about politics. The people in Wisconsin weren’t shouting, “stop beating up on John McCain or Sarah Palin.” They shouted two words: “be fair.”
Reality: journalistic integrity is dead. It was killed by one of the oldest truisms of humanity: power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It is almost impossible to remember a time when the mainstream media functioned the way it was intended to function: as an IMPARTIAL OBSERVER of news. For many of today’s “journalists”–suffused with a self-aggrandizing sense of “social justice”–maintaining observer status has left them wanting. They are no longer content merely to report the news. They now feel a compulsion to create it, and shape it to their liking.
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