Control of the media messaging is the most important aspect to successful propaganda campaign. This simple truth has been the same for generations.
One only has to think back a few months to Wisconsin and the recall/re-run elections. The legacy media were predicting massive wins for the union led recall effort. MSNBC was obviously the worst, but every channel on television, and every media print outlet was telling you it was going to be either: A) A blow out victory for anti-Walker, or B) A neck and neck close election down to the wire.
All based on their polling of course. Polling which they bleated about ad-infinitum around the clock 24/7… To support their position.
The TV media had scheduled “All Nighters”, with panel discussions filled with political pundits and ideological guests appearing to discuss the anti-Walker movement and how it reflected a “shift in the nation” toward Democrats and Progs.
MSNBC – “we’ll be here all night anticipating a nail biter”. Then, on the actual election day itself, the pundits were squealing with joy at the “exit polling” which was showing a really “tight” race with Governor Scott Walker losing, “barely losing”, but losing nonetheless.
Oh how the analysts had themselves worked up into an absolute frenzy by the time the polls closed at 9pm Eastern.
Less than 40 minutes later @9:38pm the race was called for Scott Walker because he BLEW his opposition out of the water.
38 Minutes from “giddy with leg tingling glee” to ((((crickets chirping))))…… wha,… tha,… huh?
Same principle applies to polling and punditry now. The media have a vested interest in President Obama’s election, he is more like them. He is a prog, they are progs. He is an elite intellect, they are elite intellects…. Obama is their guy.
The Institutional Legacy Media want you need you to believe that he, Obama, is doing great, that he is winning. He is not.
(Dick Morris) The media is trying to create a sense of momentum and of inevitability about the Obama candidacy. One benighted Newsweek reporter even speculated about a possible Democratic landslide.
On Friday, I saw the real numbers. These state-by-state polls, taken by an organization I trust (after forty years of polling) show the real story. The tally is based on more than 600 likely voter interviews in each swing state within the past eight days.
The trend line is distinctly pro-Romney. Of the thirteen states studied, he improved or Obama slipped in nine states while the reverse happened in only four. To read the media, one would think that Romney had a terrible month. In fact, the exact reverse is true.
Romney is currently leading in every state McCain carried plus: Indiana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, and Colorado. If he carries these states, he’ll have 228 electoral votes of the 270 he needs to win.
To win the election, Romney would then have to carry Florida where he trails by two points, and either Virginia (behind by two) or Ohio where he’s down by only one.
If he carries all three of these states and also wins all the others where Obama is now at 50% or less – Iowa, New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey — he will get 351 electoral votes, a landslide about equal to Obama’s 363 vote tally in 2008. (read more)