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Has the Press Voted for Obama? - The Opinionator - Opinion - New York Times Blog When I first saw this title, my first reaction was, you gotta be kidding me, right? Really, the Times and the pollsters are just catching up to this now?

Plenty of Republicans think the news media is in the tank for Barack Obama, but a Rasmussen Reports survey found that plenty of other Americans agree: “49% of voters believe most reporters will try to help the Democrat with their coverage, up from 44% a month ago. Just 14% believe most reporters will try to help McCain win, little changed from 13% a month ago. Just one voter in four (24%) believes that most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage.”

More interesting thoughts from a commenter going by the handle garychapelhill at the Confluence, a site for disaffected Democrats:
As might be expected an overwhelming number of Republicans see biased media coverage. They’ve been singing that tune for years. What is bad for Obama is that large numbers of Independents also feel like the media is in the tank for Obama. Even Democrats who think the press coverage of Obama is biased outnumber those who think they are biased towards McCain …

Slightly less than half (45%) believe that reporters would actually lie to protect a candidate they support, and 50% say that they are trying to make the economy seem worse than it really is (which woud presumably help an Obama candidacy).

There are other disturbing trends for the Obamaphiles (although you wouldn’t know it from the glowing press coverage–guess the people surveyed above aren’t as “low information” as the elitist OFB would have us beleive). Obama continues to slip in the daily presidential tracking poll. In fact he is at his lowest since Hillary dropped out. I guess without her to kick around anymore, people are actually forced to take a closer look at him. Obots have been telling us that Obama’s latest slide to the right is just his way of pandering to a broader electorate–he’s just a politician after all–but the polls indicate that’s not working out so well for him.

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