The Blue Board

I've never voted for a Dem(If I'm unwilling to vote for the Rep I leave it blank)and I watch zero fox news

Great response . Ok, I retract that statement. You saw I deleted it. Heh heh. Again, influence comes from peers, media, parents, ads, trends....& I know you know that, still too early early in morning to be philosophical

I definitely do. Some of the programs I watched on fox made it seem as though it was a foregone conclusion that Romney would win. I am done with Fox News bc they were just so wrong I can't even begin to listen to them anymore. I will say that this does t mean I am moving to CNN, I will simply read my news and formulate my opinions instead of letting pretty women tell me what will happen.

Interesting that you say that. My father inlaw was an editor at the local paper. Paper was bought out and they gave him a choice, write opinion news for clicks or take a severance package. He took the money. He said something about having integrity and how it's important to get the story right, yadda yadda..

Should probably make a petition a bout, eh? I'm kidding.

So, I'll put you down for no.

I agree. Most people can and have figured this out. Just was wanting to hear from the "fair and balanced crowd" on how they felt after this particular cycle. Do you feel mislead? Do you think Fox News actively worked to mislead or manipulate people or their opinions? If so can I sue fox for false advertisement and should we assign an asterisk to all things reported from fox?

I guess it is if you consider voting a waste. Onus is yours.

I'm 32 and have voted in every election since 98, midterm and presedential(and as many off year elections as I know about). I don't waste my vote. I choose not to vote for any Dem, because in any cruicial vote they will vote in a way that isn't in my best interest. If the Reb is a douche, I leave it blank(and 95% of the time that Reb has lost).

It's cool man. I understand. I'm more interested in disputing foxs claim on fair and balanced reporting. Your vote is yours and you don't have to validate it to anyone.

More than just Fox News, I think the entire right-wing media bubble is to blame for a lot of the anger following the election. With Fox News, Dick Morris, Karl Rove, and UnskewedPolls, there was this entire alternative reality constructed in which Romney was ahead in the polls. Every commentator kept predicting Romney victories, and many predicted landslides. There wasn't anything beyond gut feeling to back up any of this commentary, but it was parroted everywhere.

As a result, people who mainly get their news from conservative sources existed in a bubble in which everyone was predicting a Romney victory, and any dissenting voices were quickly dismissed as ridiculous. This led to the entire backlash against Nate Silver, as the best model for election prediction tilted more and more in Obama's favor. Obama's chance of winning as calculated by Silver went from around 75% to over 90% in the two weeks leading up to the election, and this was simply unacceptable to those existing in the bubble created by right-wing commentary, hence the efforts to dismiss him as a kook.

While I still think there would be anger, I don't think the vitriol would be nearly as intense had Fox and other sources simply accurately reported the polls and told the public that any of their predictions of Romney's victory were nothing more than gut feeling. By giving their viewers a false sense of confidence in Romney's victory, Fox assured a massive letdown on election night.

Considering it was Romney himself who said "Binders of women", that wasn't inaccurate reporting. Pretty much everything that came out of Dick Morris' mouth leading up to the election was wildly inaccurate.