Why McCain is getting hosed in the press

There have been moments in the general election when the one-sidedness of our site — when nearly every story was some variation on how poorly McCain was doing or how well Barack Obama was faring — has made us cringe.

As it happens, McCain’s campaign is going quite poorly and Obama’s is going well. Imposing artificial balance on this reality would be a bias of its own. Full Story »

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Kelly Garrett
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by Kelly Garrett - Oct. 28, 2008

A more careful analysis of the factors the authors identify as shaping the campaign coverage would have made the arguments more convincing, but the result certainly wouldn't be as readable.

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