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Karl Frisch: The right-wing media's election analysis just ain't that good

Source: Huffington Post

Nov 07, 2009

Summary

Back in 2001,
conservative media figures were
adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during
the off-year elections had little national significance.

Fox News contributor
Dick Morris said at the time, "[I]f you have a Republican president, people are
going to vote Democrat, and if you have a Democrat president, they're going to
vote Republicans." Proffering further spin of the GOP losses, Fox News
contributor Mort Kondracke said, "We have no way of knowing" how the 2001
outcome would affect the 2002 midterms, a sentiment echoed by conservative
writer Michael Barone, who declared on CNN, "I don't think that the issues and
personalities" in the Virginia and New Jersey races "are going to be congruent
with very many" races in 2002 or 2004. Then there was Laura Ingraham on Fox
News' Hannity & Colmes noting
that "[b]oth sides are going to spin this," before offering her own spin: "[T]o
call this some kind of watershed moment against Republican views is
nonsense."

For anyone watching
Fox News in the weeks leading up to
this year's off-y

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