Posted on 10/29/2008 2:05:31 AM PDT by Schnucki
A newspaper has declared Barack Obama the winner of the US presidential election – a week before it takes place.
The New Mexico Sun News - whose headline read "Obama wins!" - is fortnightly, and will not publish its next issue until November 8. This being four days after the election, the paper decided to take a gamble in advance.
In what it describes as a special collectors' edition, the newspaper elected to plump for Mr Obama, the Democratic candidate, due to his current lead in opinion polls over John McCain, his Republican rival for the presidency.
Mr Obama is currently 6.7 per cent ahead in a national "poll of polls" by RealClearPolitics.com, and also leads in several key battleground states.
Inside, the newspaper's editors explained their choice, writing: "When it comes to calling the winner of a presidential election, everyone wants to be first. The New Mexico Sun News hereby claims that achievement."
They add that readers must turn out to vote "even if we did spoil the ending for you".
The newspaper's decision threatens to see the replication of one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of US journalism, 60 years on.
The Chicago Tribune declared "Dewey Defeats Truman" on its front page of November 3, 1948, calling the presidential race for the Republican candidate, Thomas E. Dewey. However, Harry S. Truman, the Democratic nominee, had in fact won, and was later pictured holding a copy of the newspaper and grinning.
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stepping back in time...CAMPUS-WATCH.org - Campus Watch Research: "COLUMBIA U. RELEASE EDWARD SAID CHAIR DONORS: NAMES ARAB GOVERNMENT" (March 19, 2004)
stepping back in time...CAMPUS-WATCH.org (FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com): "SECRETS, DONORS AND THE EDWARD SAID CHAIR" by Jonathan Calt Harris (November 19, 2003)
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JEFF HEAD.com - Videos: "THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - Obama In His & His Supporters Own Words"
The SOBs in the media have no shame at all. The schadenfreude if McCain wins will be overwhelming!
They’ve all said that.
FIGHT!
Whether one supports Obama or McCain, it should be known as FACT that publishing such a headline is mocking Murphy (the all-knowing ever-malicious enforcer of Murphy’s laws)! LOL
Brit Hume touched upon this on his show and transcripts.
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