The media was not “seduced by polls”. It was status quo for the side wing of the DNC. The media was working to seduce low information and malleable women voters.
Cruz saved Roberts by giving conservatives the impetus they needed to vote. Check the polls immediately before and after Cruz’s visit.
Roberts owes his seat to Cruz.
The only poll that counts is the one on the first Tuesday in November.
Why the Media were stunned by the huge Democratic Defeat?
None of them know anyone who votes Republican.
Are they not one in the same?
So, if this is true, we could change the headline to:
Why the Media, seduced by the polls, were stunned by the huge Media Defeat
And they idiots working in the LSM actually believed them.
Like the oft paraphrased Pauline Kael: "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them."
The more things change...the media lives in a special world, and only deigns to acknowledge the existence of others when they can find their own useful idiots, such as the wildly incensed takers in Ferguson, MO stoked up by their poverty pimping fellow travelers in both government and the racial discord biz.
The close poll numbers are a deliberate effort by the polling wing of the democrat party to make the races appear closer, and thereby winnable, to convince those to vote who might otherwise stay home. The real numbers come out a day or two before election day just so the pollster can recover some semblance of credibility for the next go-round.
Polling: The art of discovering whether or not the people were sufficiently fooled by your last poll.
Will the Obama Media rally to prop up their dictator?
Or will they drift away like democrats running for reelection, pretending they never heard of him?
Even worse, some have been spinning it as INCUMBENTS LOSE, i.e., the voters are having a temper tantrum, they're upset with Congress as well as Obama, etc.
Ignoring the fact that the incumbents who lost were overwhelmingly Democrats.
I was polled nearly every day by someone or other during this election season. I lie to every single one of them.
“We all need to remember this and not allow the polls to cause us to get our “panties in a wad” in 2016.”...
I made several similar statements prior to Tuesday’s elections. Polls are nothing more than wild guesses created by asking a select group of individuals who will more than likely give you the same absurd answers you seek. Basically, opinion polls are like noses (or whatever part you choose to refer to), every one has one.
The media hasn’t blamed the media yet. And they won’t.
All gay, every day. Climate change or we are doomed. The economy is fine, white middle class people should stop whining and pay their taxes. The Redskins are racists and should change their name. Sandra Fluke is a patriot. Duck Dynasty is for ignorant redneck a$$holes.
Nope, none of that had anything to do with what happened. That we trust the press less than we trust Congress had nothing to do with it either.
They got beat so bad, they couldn’t even cheat to win. George Snuffluppigus putting his thumb on the scale for Shaheen probably didn’t help Shaheen much either.
That is probably THING ZERO to put on the list of stuff this Congress needs to do:
“For all federal elections, proof of citizenship in the form of a photo identification is REQUIRED!!!!”
The media - or, as it is sometimes called, Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda - tends to confuse hoping for reality, then comes to believe its own bullsh*t.
I laughed at that Frank Lumptz. He was wrong on the ads and much of the rest. LOL