McPaper runs interesting election article.

[Nym90]

Its very simple.

All of the indices favoring Bush are independent of polls.

All the indices favoring Kerry are polls.

The problem is that many of the polls were recalibrated after the 2000 election, increasing the Democrat percentage even though a thorough survey done for PEW indicates that the Democrat advantage since 2000 in partisan identification is less now than then.

I suspect there are going to be a lot of pollsters with egg on their face in November.

Agreed. We'll find out on election day that Kerry really is only 6'1", and Bush is actually 6'3"!

The supposed height advantage for Kerry is a myth perpetuated by the liberal media.

[Nym90]

My comment was a joke. Carl Hayden said that all of the advantages for Kerry were based on polls, which he says are liberally biased. I don't think Kerry being 4 inches taller than Bush is based on polls, however.

I agree that the media is biased in favor of their own profit margin, not one party or the other. Which shouldn't be surprising, as every other business in America has the same bias. There's no reason why the media would act contrary to their own economic interests when no other corporations work that way.