Does anyone else think...

[milhouse24]

I think the "Obama media effect" has skewed the polls by making the election more about "Obama's popular personality" than the real issues.  Obama campaigned on Grand naive ideas in 2008 and promised everything.  I think actual governing has worn him down, and he's no longer capable of promising grandiose things because he knows its not possible or maybe he's out of ideas.  He really can't point to any huge economic successes other than saying "things could have been worse"

But as I said, the polls reflect "personality popularity" and not necessarily "voting popularity" or even "governing popularity."  A lot of fairweather voters just support the President out of habit because they aren't very familiar with Romney or the Republican candidates.  Plus, given that Romney is from the Northeast, most of the country is unfamiliar with him.  

The liberal media until the debate has been enormously harsh and dismissive of Romney.  The media hasn't treated Romney as a true contender or a viable contender; and they've gone soft in their criticism of Obama's job performance.  This has helped create an "Obama media bubble in polling."  

But I liked the SNL parody that had "fake Obama" taking questions from "unemployed Obama supporters" - its so realistic yet so sad for this country, that the only honest critique of Obama is done by SNL comedians, and the not the liberal commentators.