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coalition_unwilling

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23. It was not terror and fear in my case, but my wife and I were considering

Reply to Whisp (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 02:07 PM

Nov 2012

moving to Canada in the event of a Romney 'win'. Would have meant uprooting our lives here and basically saying goodbye to a lot of beautiful California geography and great melting-pot diversity. We had not made the final decision, but it was being actively considered.

Good post, btw. Points up the very real human consequences of the media's appeasement of the 1%.

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About that horserace we were duped with. [View all] Whisp Nov 2012 OP

I couldn't agree more. 99Forever Nov 2012 #1

Ratings trump reality every time. ScreamingMeemie Nov 2012 #2

the media is shameless. spanone Nov 2012 #3

Relax. Not everyone was duped. randome Nov 2012 #4

The penalty for pundit malpractice and election information fraud is . . . nothing. leveymg Nov 2012 #5

This is why we have DU aaaaaa5a Nov 2012 #6

This is what calmed me down - this thread by John Lucas. Whisp Nov 2012 #12

Nate Silver, Princeton, et al. helped me to sleep well on Monday night deutsey Nov 2012 #17

Went exactly as predicted. There were a few of us that tried to calm people down Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #7

Every time that music kicked in on MSNBC early election night Greybnk48 Nov 2012 #8

The fact is that all that $ that gets spent on the presidential campaigns ends up stopbush Nov 2012 #9

But I have to ask sandyshoes17 Nov 2012 #10

Last week's shiny new media object was "what if Obama wins the EC but Rmoney wins the PV?" stopbush Nov 2012 #11

Somebody posted yesterday that something like 58% of Democrats trust the mainstream media TheKentuckian Nov 2012 #13

sometimes Secretariat wins by 31 lengths Johonny Nov 2012 #14

Proving once again that hindsight is 20/20 William Seger Nov 2012 #15

msnbc wanted the ad revenue right to the finish Whisp Nov 2012 #16

"Yes, they knew. All of them." William Seger Nov 2012 #27

she knew too Whisp Nov 2012 #28

These days, it's hard to be too cynical William Seger Nov 2012 #29

that's the way media rolls, man Whisp Nov 2012 #30

I'm not going to complain nobodyspecial Nov 2012 #18

I think the GOP voter suppression threats were the motivators Whisp Nov 2012 #19

The least they could've did was to simply give us the polling Jamaal510 Nov 2012 #20

the first debate: that's what tipped me off that they are all Hacks. Whisp Nov 2012 #25

Those media charlatans really pushed the national polling-"very close!" theme Arugula Latte Nov 2012 #21

I totally agree, they were all doing it including Rachel flamingdem Nov 2012 #22

It was not terror and fear in my case, but my wife and I were considering coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #23

We weren't all duped NNN0LHI Nov 2012 #24

I wasn't duped MrScorpio Nov 2012 #26