I love Stop the Press! because it is so far off the rails that it's funny. Take this post on how the GOP is in trouble regardless of whether Jim Tedisco wins the race for the New York U.S. House seat or not.
Scott Murphy has a 65-vote lead of state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, and there are 10,000 absentee ballots yet to count. Murphy may yet lose, but it doesn’t matter anymore. If what you hear on Fox “News” and all the radio talkers, not to mention what comes out of the mouths of the GOP senators and representatives, was true, Tedisco shoulda claimed victory seconds after the polls closed.
But instead, the race is too close to call.
You get that spin? If Tedisco loses, it just shows that the GOP will be in the wilderness for years to come. And if Tedisco wins, it's still bad news because his win wasn't bigger.
The flip side of this argument, of course, is that, after Obama's historic win and the Democrats sweep during the November elections, any Democrat should be able to win any open seat easily. But don't expect Democrat shills to point this out.
The main reason I point out this sort of silliness is that "Newswriter" supposedly works in the MSM, and I'm sure she constantly tells friends and family how objective sheand her coworkers are. That there's no bias--certainly not liberal bias--in the media. And I'm sure s/he thinks that the above referenced story is just the truth, not a Democrat talking point.
I don't know how one should read the New York race, but I can recognize that there are reasonable interpretations either way. My guess is that Obama's goodwill has about six months, during which time elections are essentially meaningless. Once the full effects of the Porkapalooza, the tax hikes, continued, spiraling unemployment and cratering economic outlook are felt, these sorts of elections won't even be close.
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