"Newer before has the media come out so strongly for a Democratic victory. They have dropped all attempts to appear neutral."
I think they do this every single election. I'll never forget how astonished I was when Nixon got re-elected. I was about 10 years old. It was then that I realized how deeply biased the media was (I grew up in NYC a truly media saturated town) and also that Nixon had been right about the "silent majority" (see tagline!). And the MSM wasn't 1/2 as bad then as they are now. I see no reason at all to expect them to change, not for at least 20 years can we expect to see any improvement.
In fact the Media has not done what they have done this year.
I was in the media during Nixon Campaigns of both 1968 and 1972. I know for a fact the media was not nearly as biased as it is today. In fact in 1968 the media was very opposed to Lyndon Johnson over the Viet Nam War. They constantly hammered Hubert H. Humphry about his stand on Viet Nam. You may not beleive it but Nixon got a fair shake from the media in 1968.
By 1972 the media was opposed to Nixon. But they felt he would be easily defeated. They felt that if Viet Nam ruined LBJ's chances to run in 1968, it would destroy Nixon in 1972. They did little in 1972 to try to convince people that Nixon was the wrong choice. They were pretty sure that McGovern would win. They were very surprised and angered when Nixon won 60.7 percent of the vote.
At that point the media went back to June 17th 1972 and dug up the Watergate Breakin Story and began to use it to take Nixon down. It is interesting to note that between Jun 17th 1972 and election day in Nov. 1972 there were next to no stories on the Watergate break in. After some very limited coverage in June of 1972 the media dropped the Watergate story. It was only after the election that the media started to go after the Watergate story as a means of removing Nixon from office.