When is a win, not a win?

Sarah Palin is the biggest public relations fraud since the Spice Girls. “Never has so much attention been paid by so many to one with such little talent or accomplishments.” (Apologies to Churchill.) Now that her shine has evaporated, she is being ignored more and more by the media and will soon achieve her destiny of irrelevance.

So the media is back to analyzing Obama’s and the Democrats weaknesses and trying to drive a wedge between supporters of the Clinton’s and the rest of the party.

When Obama is leading by six points, the media – CNN et al, report it as an “underperformance”. When he leads by 3 points it is called a “statistical dead heat.” When John McCain leads by 1 point, he is said to have “pulled ahead”. Now that John McCain has slipped to his usual position of 5 points behind Obama, the Republican spin doctors abetted by their friends in the media, are now saying that national polls are meaningless. It’s what's happening in the swing states that count.

Yesterday we had a CNN’s pollster advising the public not to vote early. (I guess the early vote is breaking for Obama.) “Have you never heard about the October surprise?” he chirped. “Wait until then before making up your mind” he continued.

Mark my word. The Republicans are planning to steal this one if they can’t win it fairly. How much of the popular vote does Obama need to win, to really win? If he wins 53% to McCain’s 47% (a six point spread) will that be enough? If the Republicans don’t want to see the country erupt into civil unrest, they better not go ahead with their plans to steal those close races.

Now the strangest interview I have seen in days is the one this morning on CNN with Ralph Nader. The interviewer was attempting to highlight the “Nader factor”. The theory is that with Nader in the race polling 4%, this could be enough to deny Obama victory.

Then Nader said a most curious thing: In Florida where both Obama and McCain are polling 48% each (without the Nader factor), when Nader’s 4% is taken into account, it is McCain who loses 4% and fall to 44%. End of interview. I have not seen such a hurried exit to commercial in a long time.

Talk about the liberal media: well thank God for them, wherever they are. If we didn’t have some balance and choice we would all be fed the poison of Limbaugh, and FoxNews and the “spin” of the Republicans through CNN.