The math

Liberals and progressivesknow the main stream media is bias due to sheer laziness. They frame questions from republican talking points, accept every Bush lie as fact and generally pile on and belittle Democratic candidates. The so-called liberal 'bias' isn't true as anyone paying attention knows. Quit sucking up the right-wing and maybe you'll gain some respect.

I have thought all along that the questions are smoke screens..both sides create the picture of some Place in the World..the "work at hand" vs. "the structure"..
Then the real world seems to jump into the face where Intellectual One-upmanship offers its sub-conscience..
Politics at the Leadership level offers only its personal Time Card..the perpetual/in my own time..prevails as some defence point..
When it come to the Power Structure or Leadership-however the TWAIN shall meet..
We seem to have hidden people that give the political angles less than savory arguements/People over Politics..
Getting your Picture Framed just right..seems lost in all the "shuffle" diplomacy..chances loom large on political horizons and often never really get there..the same Politics as Usual/might just need to be HAMMERED Out w/more attention to details that require the process something more than the "spirit" that floats a BOAT.

The problem with your point is that a wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf. The Media has been so biased for so long, that everything they say is taken with a bias slant. For your point to be taken with a credibility the media will need to earn the trust of the public, both the liberals and the conservatives. Just cause the facts prove you out, this time. Being biased, is more then just what you say. sometimes it is conveyed with choice or even your demeanor when you say it the problem. Please remember that semantics and demeanor still say a loot about the message, whether biased or neutral.

Of course, being proved correct doesn't necessarily mean you were behaving in an unbiased manner, just as being proved incorrect doesn't mean you were behaving in a biased fashion. In this case, however, it certainly seems that Rove was looking at the polls with the rosiest of rose-colored glasses.

Geez Jake, you work for ABC - aren't you used to getting hammered by now???

As for Rove, he is what he is. He probably believes in divine math. But I'll tell you one calculation he got right - immigration. Exit polls indicate that Bush garnered a respectable % of the hispanic vote in 2000 and 2004. Bush's immigration proposal was to maintain and grow that support. But republican congress dug their heals in. And exit data shows that hispanics abandoned the GOP last night, when the GOP needed every vote. Rove was right, and the GOP should have followed suit instead of pandering to their angry nationalist constituents most of whom are in the GOP back pocket anyway.

Reality, as Stephen Colbert said, has a well-known liberal bias.

As seen by his behavior in this campaign, Rove certainly wasn't one to let reality intrude on his machinations in counting poll numbers like some deranged, demented accountant. His legacy will be the extremely questionable one of advising a politician for six years to play to his base--and ONLY to his base--when setting national policy and when governing. Rove should have learned that the opposition cannot be disregarded and disrespected in such a shallow way, despite the assurances of candidate Bush in 2000 that he was a "uniter, not a divider." Would that "Architect" Rove would fade into history as a campaign footnote!

Amen.