[southernnorthcarolina]

The race may or may not be close, but both sides must design their strategy on the assumption that it will be. It is difficult to see how Kerry could win the election without taking Pennsylvania, and it's equally difficult to imagine President Bush being reelected without carrying Ohio. Expect both campaigns to spend a lot of time in those two states.

[Porterville]

The race isn't close, this is from Yahoo.... The La La Times is also reporting a close race.... to me that means in reality there are huge margines in favor of Bush

[Stepan12]

I think the media is keeping Kerry out of sight because he's such an unattractive candidate. It's well known that Kerry does better in the polls when people don't see him.

That being the case, it is reminiscent of that scene in that 70s movie, Walking Tall, where the original Sherrif was killed harassing Joe Don Baker (Buford Pusser) and all the corrupt gangsters say we have to do all we can to elect our dead sherrif so Buford Pusser does not become the sherrif.

The media's behavior in this election reminds of that scene out of Walking Tall.

[Christian Muniz]

We're getting a lot of Bush and Kerry here in PA. It's dumb to hear the media talking about national polls -- who cares where the polls are in California and Texas when we know where their electoral votes are going anyway? That's a good article -- hopefully the news coverage will focus more on that now.