2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Roy Karrde]

I'd really recommend reading this blog post featured in the leading UK conservative daily paper today. It gives a pretty good explanation about why Fox News is doing more harm than good to the American right-wing agenda.

So by that logic is MSNBC and the New York Times killing or doing more harm than good to the Democratic Party?

It is, but there's no evidence that anyone who was going to vote Romney changed their mind and voted Obama instead because of Obama's photo-op. I'm not saying the polls are wrong, just that there are inherent flaws in such polls and Fox drew incorrect assumptions from the poll's results and then reported on them in an incredibly offensive manner.

I point you to this Pew poll

"In the Pew Research Center’s election weekend survey after the storm, Obama held a 48 percent to 45 percent lead over Romney among likely voters.

A week before, the race was deadlocked with each candidate drawing support from 47 percent of the likely electorate. Interviewing for the final pre-election survey was conducted Oct. 31- Nov. 3 among 2,709 likely voters. The previous survey was conducted Oct. 24-28, before Hurricane Sandy made landfall along the East Coast.

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Obama’s handling of the storm’s aftermath may have contributed to his improved showing.

According to the Pew Research Center, 69 percent of all likely voters approve of the way Obama is handling the storm’s impact. Even a plurality of Romney supporters (46 percent) approve of Obama’s handling of the situation; more important, so too do 63 percent of swing voters."

His actions brought major changes to swing voters by several percentage points

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/...ld-off-romney/