MSNBC's O'Donnell Spins: Obama is 'the Really Big Winner' in Wisconsin
On Tuesday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC host O'Donnell teased his show by asserting that President Obama is "the really big winner" in Wisconsin because of exit polls showing that, in spite of Republican Governor Scott Walker's win, a majority of those who voted preferred President Obama over GOP candidate Mitt Romney in the presidential race. O'Donnell:
Tonight, the really big winner in the Wisconsin recall election is President Obama.
Without noting the caveat that a significant number of voters typically do not make up their minds which candidate they will vote for until the days leading up to an election - in this case a presidential election that is still five months away - O'Donnell a bit later brought up the poll numbers in Obama's favor with guest Jon Heilemann of New York magazine. O'Donnell:
I said at the top of the show that President Obama was the big winner tonight because, in the exit polls, we saw today that they were asked "who would you vote for for President today?" Fifty-three percent in Wisconsin, 53 percent say "President Obama." Only 42 percent say Mitt Romney. That is, if not the recall outcome, that outcome for President Obama has to be very encouraging.
In the same segment, guest and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow also notably portrayed Republican Governor Scott Walker's conservative agenda as "radical" as she fretted that he would press ahead as Wisconsin governor emboldened by the recall and favorable reaction from other Republicans. Maddow: "That's every incentive for him to continue to be as radical as he's been and more.
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Blind
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:03am.
A hate-filled, envy-driven Socialist's viewpoint. Mr. O'Donnell is as blind as he is full of hate.
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The morning after
Submitted by ThisnThat on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:15am.
Morning Joe is celbrating the o'bama poll, and bringing it up every chance they get. Chuck Todd is in full a$$-kissing mode. "o'bama's going to win - the exit polls point out that WI voters trust o'bama's handling of the economy over Romney". Dream on, liberals. o'bama's 40-straight months of 8% + unemployment rate is NOT going to lead to victory.
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The Bradley Effect says Obama is losing
Submitted by frank14 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:58am.
And these blustering libs know it.
But wait! Didn't the exit
Submitted by pilgrim4jc on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:16am.
But wait! Didn't the exit polls also say it would be a "very tight race" within just a couple of percentage point? So if that turned out to be wrong big time, then wouldn't the OB numbers showing he would "win" also be wrong? Can't have it both ways LSM.
Exactly
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 1:57pm.
Leave it to an MSNBC clown act to declare the "big winner" to be a politician who wasn't even running in Wisconsin, and whose Party took a shellacking, and base it on the same exit polling that projected a close recall outcome.
The Democratic Party and its labor union henchmen just totalled the family car, and O'Donnell, Howard Dean, and others are trying to find undamaged parts of the car so they can deny that an accident occurred.
If the Dem strategists believe this nonsense when they are behind closed doors, they are truly doomed -- and that's a good thing.
Spin, spin, spin!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:31am.
double post
sorry
Libs today are going to be
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:21am.
Libs today are going to be spinning so furiously they will screw themselves right into the ground.
Ha, ha... fiscal
Submitted by PeskyDane on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:38am.
Ha, ha... fiscal responsibility is the new "radical" according to Madow. He's so cute.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:45am.
Their exit polls were garbage because they apparently over-sampled democtrats or union members or both.
When the exit polls are off by more than the margin of error, you really have to question the polls.
As soon as spinmeister O'Donnell came on last night (I was watching for a short time just for fun) he went right to a graphic that showed Walker's spending and the "Other" GOP spending (including the evil Koch brother's) spent WAY more than poor old Barrett and the "other" democrat spending.
Then they went right to Maddow who tried to say that Obama was the big winner because of the flawed exit polls which were obviously worthless.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Assuming that the exit polls were correct...it STILL sucks for
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:24am.
Obama, because he carried Wisconsin by what, 14 points in 2008? So his popularity is seriously on the downward trajectory and likely to continue that way in Wisconsin.
... and don't forget, C5, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:30am.
... when you are being "polled" outside the voting booth, it ain't a secret!
What do they think that some union member who voted for Walker is going to say when the union thugs are hanging around just waiting to see who the "defectors" are.
Hell yeah, they say they'll vote for Obama. They don't want to walk with a permanent limp, or not walk at all the rest of their lives.
I cannot imagine having to live in a state of fear like the union members in most states have to live in.
That Shiite just would not fly in southern states. We have way too many guns.
Maybe
Submitted by bobsmom on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:58am.
Wisconsonites are more sophicated than these bozo's think, maybe, just maybe, they were giving them the answers they wanted to hear, just to mess with their heads............no way people can believe in Scott Walker's policies AND Obama's.
I was wondering.......
Submitted by FireChief on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:00am.
Last night after my 12 yr. old daughter and myself were watching the Walker victory, I told her “lets see how in the world MSNBC is gonna spin this”. As SOON as I tuned to MSNBC, O'Donnell announces, “the big winner tonight is....President Obama ! ! “ My 12 year old looked at me smiling and said, “well, that didn't take long did it?” Even a 12 year old can pinpoint their liberal bias.
Just the smart ones, Chief, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:36am.
... like your daughter!
Private school?
LOL
Submitted by TXTRUTH on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:46am.
I also turned on MSNBC to see the reaction and when O'Donnell said that with a straight face I fell out of the chair laughing.
I read somewhere
Submitted by Shreve on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:01am.
that the Madison area had a 119% voter turnout. And liberals were not saying that number was a bad thing.
Mr. O'Donnell must have had a
Submitted by John21 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:11am.
Mr. O'Donnell must have had a double dose of the Kool-Aid or was under serious medication to be able to say that with a straight face.
The MSNBC Public Relations firm must have a very good training program to achieve this level robotic response from so little natural intelligence. I cannot believe even the public relations firm of MSNBC can think that this will be a winnig point for their client Mr. Obama. Everyone will plainly see this for what it is a very poor attempt to reduce the political damage to their client. A major push by them and the other propaganda media networks maybe able to distract the attention but I do not believe they will be able to mitagate it.
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Mika on Morning Joe is beside
Submitted by ThisnThat on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:15am.
Mika on Morning Joe is beside herself this morning. Lots of reasons. (1) Because Walker "edged" out a victory, according to her. (2) Because Clinton is for keeping Bush's tax cuts (she rolls her eyes). And (3) because Congress rejected the Equal Pay law. As for this latter, she said she's furious. "How could anyone reject Equal Pay" she asks. Of course she would ask that -- heck, she's for unions, she's "progressive", and now she's furious that employers simply don't provide the same paycheck for women -- even when the woman takes years off to raise kids, won't travel, won't work overtime, and is much less experienced. Her little progressive monkey-shite-for-brains mind simply can't get around the "no-gimme" approach of private industry. How unfair!
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the democrats don't believe in equal pay for their employees
Submitted by ohio granny on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:21am.
There are already laws on the books regarding equal pay. If the democrats really believe in equal pay why do so many of them including Nancy Pelosi and the Obama White House pay women less then they pay men?
Mika doesn't know this? Then she is an idiot.
yeah sure
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:33am.
You just know that the Wisconsinites who vote to affirm their faith in the policies of Walker that have stabilized their states budget and lowered their unemployment prefer the opposite when it comes to the national level. The idea that the people of Wisconsin are a little schizzo in their politics is not believable.
The polls that showed obama with a big lead over Romney were also showing a dead heat between Walker and Barrette so it was off by 10 percent. The media is trumpeting this false number but the Whitehouse has to be in panic this morning.
O'donnell whats in a name?
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:42am.
Is this o'donnell idiot kin to the other o'donnell idiot? Rosie?
I wonder if O'Donnell
Submitted by chiefpayne on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 9:57am.
ever gets dizzy from all that spinning?
Today
Submitted by desert3030 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:19am.
I wonder if O'Donnell......O'Donnell's by the thousands are seeking legal advise on how to chnage their names today!
Larry, Rachel, and Sgt Ed really showed how big their backside's are, and how thin skinned they are. Great night at MSNBC, NBC.... automous divisions of the DNC.
Ever think
Submitted by desert3030 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:23am.
The recall was a plot to stimulate jobs, advertising and create some wealth?
Naw the Dem's would have called it off.
Dem's thank you for the recall as I am sure someone; somewhere's along the food chain made some money.
Union members, look for a dues increase.
Its ok
Submitted by happi on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:59am.
SHHHH - let the left just keep telling themselves that everything's ok for Obama in Nov. Their shock on the morning of Nov 7 will be priceless.
Dizzy is as dizzy does
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:10am.
How many thousand RPMs were these whirling dervishes spinning to spin up a dizzying logical Gordian knot like that?
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
is that how they celebrate???
Submitted by rowdygirl on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:53am.
If he's the winner, then why are the liberals crying and slapping each other?
Tam
Dewey, opps, I mean, Obama, Wins!
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:27pm.
This just in: Obama Wins the Wisconsin Recall election!
Bulletin! Bulletin! Bulletin!
The results are in. Obama annihilates Romney in the Wisconsin Recall election! This is a large victory for Obama, as the 10 electoral votes which Wisconsin holds may be the difference between Obama holding on his seat and Romney becoming the 45th President. Obama, attending a fund raiser in the neighboring state of Minnesota, is quoted as saying "It's good to see that we don't actually need to hold the general election in Wisconsin this year. Vice President Biden was beginning to wonder about our chances in that backwater, racist, extremely conservative state. The People have spoken. There's no need for them to speak again in November."
Romney, who many people believe will initiate an expensive, unnecessary, and unpatriotic time consuming recount of the exit poll results, which shows an undeniable victory for Obama, was unavailable for comment.
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O'Donnell is CORRECT - Obama won last night
Submitted by Conservator on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:09pm.
And MSNBC is the most watched cable news outlet - give me a break.
BTW, the "exit poll" that O'Donnell referred to was flawed, thus any analysis conducted on that data must also be flawed.
Initially, CNN and other cable outlets announced BASED on exit polls, the recall election of Walker versus Barrett was to close to CALL. Yet, Walker won by nearly 7 points. Therefore, President Obama's so-called lead over Mitt Romney in an electorate that was voting for Scott Walker is nothing but folly and progressive intransigence on the results of the recall election - they lost and are now spinning, moaning and whining. Get use to it progressives, Obama is toast.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:34pm.
Only a childish liberal (redundant?) could possibly think like this.
By the way--this special recall election, demanded by union thugs at the cost of millions, will be paid for, as always, by the taxpayers.
I presume the taxpayers of Wisconsin will be sending a bill soon to these lavishly loaded union chiefs.
Right??
It's a start...
Submitted by nw_pa on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 2:01pm.
What spin. Their guy lost and they have to find something to keep it going so they come up with exit polling for an election that's 5 months away. "Obama was the big winner(pant, pant, pant)for exit polls showed he was favored(pant, pant, pant)with numbers of 53%(pant, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant).
Well Larry, I mean Lawrence, in 2008 Obama won with over 56% of the vote. Looks like it's tightening up, hmm?
Put some spin on that? Thanks in advance.
Biggest Looser & Coward
Submitted by AMR1960 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 6:40pm.
...That would be OBAMA...
It's so endearing watching moribund segments of the Obamedia spinning & gyrating this outcome into a neutral to harmless event on the road to "DearLeader" Obama's re-election.
The fact remains that as a nominee to office of POTUS Obama stood up in front of these Union groups and claimed he was all about SEIU...All about Public Service unions. If needed he would BE THERE--In his Walking Shoes standing side-by-side with his union brothers; no mention of checking the "political weather" first
Obama's calculated abandonment & Twitter driven Leadership from beyond Wi. State lines was as cowardly as it's was calculated
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