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Echo Chamber

Posted: October 25th, 2012 | Author: | | 2 Comments »

Conservatives read Drudge Report, listen to Rush, watch FOX.

Liberals read HuffPo, listen to NPR, watch MSNBC.

It’s not news to any of you that there are two competing narratives in America today.

But sometimes the hyper-partisan excesses are just so egregious, I gotta share it. Like today.

These are the 8 national presidential tracking polls that came out today.

Romney is winning in 5 national polls. Obama is winning in 3 national polls.

Let’s set aside that national polls don’t matter much; if you examine state by state polls and then do electoral math, Obama has a lead.

Drudge Report gets 84 million hits per month. It is very popular. They are running this front page.

Look at the top right.

They only include the polls that show Romney ahead.

This behavior — omitting polls that show an Obama lead — isn’t an outlier. It happens frequently.

If Obama wins, millions of duped Republicans will think “How can that be? Romney was leading in all the polls! It must be voter fraud! We wuz robbed!”

And there will be more push for voter I.D. laws.

And there will be less willingness to make any political compromise.

What a cycle.

2 Comments on “Echo Chamber”

  1. 1: Mg said at 8:33 pm on October 25th, 2012:

    And by top right I mean top left

  2. 2: Bob Hill said at 10:13 am on October 26th, 2012:

    I thought “top right” was a Freudian slip regarding your favorite candidate.

    Re: the polls – I am a frequent reader of Drudge. I don’t really put any stock into the polls. Even if Romney was leading in all of the polls, I would still have doubts. I do enjoy reading Drudge because I feel like I get the “news” that I don’t get elsewhere. I’m sure the Huffington post readers feel the same.

    But my brain wouldn’t jump to voter fraud if Obama won. It’s close and regardless of what the polls say, it’s going to be very close.

    Great post about the win connection and voting. Fascinating!

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