Calls Grow for GOP to Break its Media Cocoon

[Benj]

Media cocoon doesn't matter.  No one's telling the Dems to break their media cocoon.

Trying to "fix" the losing party after every election has become tiring.  See the Dems in 2004 and 2010, GOP in '06 and '08.   The GOP lost because it had an inferior operation and an inferior campaign controlling the top of the ticket.

I'm sorry but the GOP media cocoon is a huge problem for the party. Right wing media created a false universe that thoroughly convinced Republicans that their views not only were right, but were also shared by the vast majority of Americans. It created a false sense of security. They figured they were doing everything right and didn't make the changes necessary to win the election, As it turns out, most Americans were very much against their agenda.

Almost all of the polls were wrong, Republican-friendly or otherwise. 

Except that, y'know, they weren't. Many of them (and the aggregates certainly) nailed this election all along. Only the few that this very bubble chose to accept were completely wrong. You only further prove the point, really.

I don't think you can reasonably suggest a New Yorker is in "the bubble". Unless he's from Buffalo, or somewhere absurdly rural.

You could live in New York City and still be in "the bubble". It's not a matter of not knowing anyone who is voting for Obama. It's the complete isolation from news sources that aren't cheerleading for Republicans. Just because you have Democratic friends or coworkers doesn't mean you swap news, or would take news from them seriously if you did. Moreover, it doesn't mean you aren't convinced that everyone in areas that "matter" is angry at the Democrats and wants to throw them out--actually probably easier to believe that living in New York City, where you can dismiss everyone around you, than living in Ohio and having friends who are of mixed partisan affiliation.