David Brock's "media watchdog" organization (more like "anti-fair, anti-balanced watchdog organization" Media Matters for America has its panties in a bunch because Fox News Live's Gregg Jarrett yesterday called the Ohio governor's race "a nail-biter" in a "battleground" state--in other words, because Jarrett reported the current state of the race between Democratic Congressman Ted Strickland and Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell accurately instead of, basically, calling it for Strickland now. Media Matters aggresively massages and averages together several old Rasmussen polls to assert that a Strickland victory is a sure thing, then points to the most recent Rasmussen poll that puts Strickland ahead at 52%. Not exactly a 10-mile lead, but then again, this is why agenda-based (read: "anti-Fox News") poll analysis like Media Matters' is known as "torturing the data until it confesses."
Yet a May 4 analysis of the Ohio governor's race by the very serious, very distinguished Congressional Quarterly--not exactly anybody's idea of a biased rag--ranked the Strickland/Blackwell race as "No Clear Favorite" and called it a "battleground" within a "battleground" state. My, how strange. Perhaps Media Matters would like to take CQ on as well?
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