Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 7, 2012, 16:39:
I have no idea who will win the Presidential election. I think it's still too close to call.
And media is successful.
At some point it may get to the "too close to call" stage, but it certainly isn't there now. The problem is that the people who are reporting on it have a vested interest in trying to make it sound close so they can get more readers/viewers. It's like watching an episode of Survivor where it's obvious who's going to get voted out, but they use all sorts of edits to make it look like it's in doubt.
Right now it's not even remotely close - Obama has it locked up. Could that change? Certainly. But the media is trying to distract with general polls, and are ignoring the electoral math. Electorally, if the election were held today, Obama would win easily.
Again, that's not to say that "stuff" won't happen. The election is still fairly far off. But trying to describe the election
as it currently stands as "too close to call" is just wrong.