It's a Little Like the Loch Ness Monster....

[davidbcoe]

A couple of weeks ago, in the midst of the financial meltdown, it was revealed that the lobbying firm of Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager, had been receiving monthly consulting fees of $15,000.00 from Fannie Mae right up through August of this year, though Davis had claimed that his firm stopped being on the Fannie payroll long ago.  The

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[hedwig_snowy]

You have to love Fox News. They keep having these text polls after the debates. The general public (Dem/Rep/Ind) and find that Obama overwhelmingly won each debate, but the Fox polls run in the high 80% range (last night's was around 87%) for McCain. You could call 100 registered Republicans after each debate and not get that high a percentage saying that McCain won.

I have a 'litmus' test for myself to determine bias. I can't always see it, but I use the idea that if I replace 'A' with 'B' do I still get 'C'. e.g. If a proposal comes from the Bush administration, would I support it if it came from a Clinton (or Obama soon! :) administration.

There was a diary posted on Saturday that asked what if certain things about the campaign had been reversed and how that would have effected the race. Your's asks similar questions and there are probably 100's more. The reasonings are varied, but a lot of the media's actions are due to ratings and wanting this to be close (i.e. = more interesting for them) The 'liberal' media probably saw McCain as the underdog and wanted to play Devil's Advocate to keep it interesting. Makes them look foolish.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/11/122148/13

[davidbcoe]

I tried to vote on the Fox interactive poll last night, but it wouldn't let me register an "Obama won" vote. I considered trying "McCain won" just to see if that would work, but I'm pretty certain it would have, and I didn't want to give him the vote.