I hear ya. I conservative writers would quit writing articles based on faulty push polls as well. Are they trying to help the opposition?
Me too....
>>I had got so sick of the liberal MSM trying to coronate Obama and dispirit Republican’s with their cooked polls, that I’ve given up listening to the news....So far, I’ve been doing it for one week, at it’s amazing how much better I feel...even my blood pressure is back in the normal range.<<
The take-away line in the article was this one: “The intended effect is to suppress Republican turnout through media polling bias. We’ll see a lot more of this.”
And the reason we’ll see a lot more is that it works, as evidenced by your blood pressure comment, as well as a personal observation of my own bp.
But we’re both going to vote regardless. The real impact is on those less-politically-involved people who would vote for Romney, but don’t want to wake up Weds. morning and find out they lost. It’s not about Romney losing; it’s about them losing.
So, the current push by the MSM is to build momentum to achieve a 2008 rerun, where Obama is viewed as unbeatable. If they succeed, Romney voters will stay home, partly because they see no point, and partly because they don’t want to wake up having voted for the guy who lost.
This strategy, however, only works if that momentum actually builds, but in the current environment, that’s not likely to happen. And if we go into election day with the numbers close, well, people love a horse race, and they’ll go to the polls. This could be especially true of the previous Obama voters who have changed their minds and intend to vote for Romney, if they vote at all. If it’s not viewed as close, they’re likely to stay home rather than wake up a loser; if it’s a horserace, they might show up and try to pick another winner.