Panic: Media Rush to Shore Up Obama's 'Firewall'

Breitbart ^ | 15 Oct 2012 | Mike Flynn

[Evil Slayer]

On Friday, Politico reported that the Obama campaign was planning to revisit the issue of Romney's tax returns. For ten days, since the first debate, the Obama campaign had been shedding its poll advantage. Revisiting this old issue was their response? I took the story as confirmation that the Obama campaign had no new attack lines to blunt Romney's gaining momentum. The media, clearly, took the news as a time for panic. Obama wasn't able to save himself, so they would have to do it for him.

Almost as if on cue, the media this morning went wall-to-wall with explanations for how Obama, in spite of recent polls, still had the edge in the race. Much of the conversation was framed around a new WaPo/ABC poll, released this morning, showing Obama maintaining a 3-point edge over Romney, 49-46. This single poll was almost solely responsible for erasing Romney's lead in the RealClearPolitics polling average. But, as I noted this morning, this wasn't so much a poll as propaganda.

The last three polls conducted by WaPo/ABC have used a D+3-6 sample. Today's poll, however, used a D+9 sample. WaPo would have you believe that, since the first debate and revelations about the Obama Administration's cover-up of the Libyan crisis, there has been a surge of support towards Democrats. Its own poll showed Romney's likability rising and a huge shift in enthusiasm toward the GOP nominee, and yet Democrats are going to have a bigger turnout advantage than 4 years ago? It defies anything approaching reason.

Yet, even with both hands on the scale, Obama can't crack 50% in the WaPo poll.

Politico also released its latest Battleground poll this morning. It also finds the race essentially tied, with Obama edging Romney by 1 point, 46-45. Obama, yet again, is under 50%.

[LS]

Not enough bricks to build that firewall.

[LS]

Not enough bricks to build that firewall.

[tet68]

Hey Barrak...

A fire wall doesn’t do you a bit of good after you’ve
been surfing the web looking at Choom porn.

[WashingtonSource]

The USA Today-Gallup poll has brought their little scheme tumbling down. I love it.

[Gator113]

I can see the Obama’s crying from my house.

[Nip]

When it comes to the LMSM I remember two things:
First, the LMSM’s parents, reporters in the mid-1970s, discovered that they could break a President.
Second, today’s LMSM, reporters in the late 2000s, discovered that they could create a President.
So today we are seeing if that same generation of reporters can save a President.
The only thing that I wonder about is: What will the LMSM reporters do when they fail to save the Emperor and the Emperor has to stand alone without any protection (do I dare say clothing?) provided by his creators?

[gotribe]

o’bidens’ slaughter at the polls will also mean the death of the media. It will have nothing left to support it.

[lwoodham]

They need to shore up his farewell.

[jdirt]

I got an idea, why don’t all those libs just stay home and write their articles about how well Obama did at home. It will save a lot of money for the papers and the networks and being there really won’t change what they cover anyway.