Will Someone in the Press Prematurely Project Obama the Winner Based o

So the meme is supposedly set. Final pre-election expectations are that the popular vote in the 2012 presidential contest will come in roughly deadlocked. Rasmussen and Gallup show Republican nominee Mitt Romney up by one point. Other polls show either a tie or slight lead for incumbent Democrat Barack Obama. Set against this expectation, don't be surprised if someone in the press, perhaps…
Tom Blumer
November 6th, 2012 3:13 AM

Ed Schultz: MSNBC Being Anti-Romney Is Called 'Playing Fair With the F

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism studied cable news coverage from August 27 through October 21. They announced 71 percent of MSNBC's coverage of Mitt Romney this year was negative, far outperforming Fox News's negative coverage of President Barack Obama, which came in at 46 percent. The negative-to-positive ratio on MSNBC was roughly 23-to-1; the negative-to-…
Tim Graham
November 5th, 2012 11:44 PM

Harvey Weinstein: Obama is 'True Hawk,' Giuliani Could be 'Crazy Villa

Appearing as a guest on the Monday, November 5, Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, film maker Harvey Weinstein mocked Republicans John McCain and Rudy Giuliani as "brilliant actors" because they had appeared on Morgan's show recently and criticized President Obama, with the liberal film maker cracking that Giuliani could "play the crazy villain in any movie." He went on to assert that the military…
Brad Wilmouth
November 5th, 2012 11:44 PM

CNN Asks If Any Republicans Are 'Giving Up the Fight

CNN's own national poll has Obama and Romney tied, but that didn't stop anchor Brooke Baldwin from asking Monday if Republicans are already giving up on the election. "Do you hear any of the Republicans giving up the fight?" she foolishly asked Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) after Republican Haley Barbour said that Hurricane Sandy "broke Romney's momentum." [Video below the break. Audio here.]
Matt Hadro
November 5th, 2012 7:10 PM

Open Thread: Election Eve

We'll have several threads going tomorrow during Election Day but for now, use this thread to keep fellow NBers informed of the latest polling developments on this Election Eve.
NB Staff
November 5th, 2012 6:32 PM

On Eve of Election, CBS News Finally Releases Libya Excerpts of Obama

On Monday afternoon, Human Events writer John Hayward stumbled upon Fox News' Bret Baier's discovery of bias by omission from CBS News.  It seems out that a key portion -- regarding Benghazi -- of a 60 Minutes interview was cut out to protect the president and his re-election campaign.   The original interview conducted by CBS’ Steve Kroft on September 12, 2012, left out an exchange where…
Matt Vespa
November 5th, 2012 6:06 PM

Jack Welch on Obama’s Proposed Ozone Regulations: ‘It’s A Trilli

On the Nov. 5 edition of CNBCs “Squawk Box,” former CEO of GE Jack Welch guest hosted and did not shy away from his opinions of the current administration. Welch emphasized the great opportunity America has with natural gas and how some of Obama’s proposed green energy bills pose a great threat to the economy. One of those big threats, according to Welch, is the Ozone regulations bill, which…
Liz Thatcher
November 5th, 2012 5:30 PM

Rob Portman Smacks Down CNN's Obama-Friendly Talking Points

CNN's Soledad O'Brien threw Democratic talking points at Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Monday's Early Start, but the Romney surrogate was ready as he defended the campaign's Jeep ad. "Was it a mistake then to run that Jeep ad which ran in Toledo, Ohio?" O'Brien pressed. "[I]t was deemed by PolitiFact to be false," she added, despite the claim's accuracy that plans were indeed made to build…
Matt Hadro
November 5th, 2012 5:26 PM

Expert: Romney's Plan for Managed Bankruptcy Would Have Saved Industry

“Bin Laden is Dead and GM is Alive!”  That slogan emanating from Vice President Biden, which has resonated in states, like Ohio, which could decide this upcoming election.  But Gov. Romney’s call from late 2008 to send Detroit into managed bankruptcy would have saved the auto industry as well, according to expert Edward Niedermeyer.  Niedermeyer wrote today in The Wall Street Journal that:
Matt Vespa
November 5th, 2012 5:24 PM

Jay-Z Substitutes 'Mitt' for 'B-tch' While Rapping at Obama Rally

Rapper Jay-Z while performing at an Obama campaign rally in Ohio Monday substituted the name "Mitt" for the word "b-tch" in the lyrics to his song "99 Problems." Before doing so, he told the crowd he didn't get it vetted by the campaign (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary, file photo):
Noel Sheppard
November 5th, 2012 4:59 PM

Chris Matthews: Quoting Obama Is Racist, Slams Dinesh D'Souza's 'Twist

Chris Matthews in a special Sunday night Hardball slammed the south as racist and insisted that quoting Barack Obama is bigoted. An incredulous Matthews explained, "And topping it off, we heard Romney himself out here in Ohio today tying all this trash talk together, the President is bent on, get this, revenge." Of course, while talking to voters last week, the President actually said, "Voting…
Scott Whitlock
November 5th, 2012 4:52 PM

CBS's Kroft Downplays Harry Reid's Responsibility For Senate Impasse

On Sunday's 60 Minutes, CBS's Steve Kroft tried to paper over Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's role in fostering deadlock in the Senate. Kroft spotlighted Reid's "responsibility" for setting the body's agenda, but quickly added that the Nevada senator has "just as much of a responsibility as Senator McConnell - to make the system work and to do some things." The correspondent…
Matthew Balan
November 5th, 2012 4:39 PM

NYT's Keller Distressed By Paul Ryan’s 'Mostly White, Upper-Middle-C

Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller visited Rep. Paul Ryan's alma mater, Miami University in Ohio, to examine Republicans in their natural element for his Monday column "The Republican ID," and seemed very concerned about the mindset of a college that actually favored the Republican candidate. This patch of southern Ohio between Cincinnati and Dayton is not the up-for-grabs…
Clay Waters
November 5th, 2012 4:18 PM

Lefty Insight from NYT Sunday Review: 'Someone Is Going to Win, Someon

This week's New York Times Sunday Review wasn't as loaded with bias as last week's edition, but did feature a political cri de couer by Times favorite Drew Westen, Emory University professor and left-winger, "America's Leftward Tilt?" Westen really went out on a limb: The presidential election is now a close contest, but barring an Electoral College tie, someone is going to win, someone is…
Clay Waters
November 5th, 2012 2:47 PM