I find the last few days before elections to be nerve-wracking. There is so much information and so many polls released and the candidates all seem so desperate. I'm always filled with this sense that it doesn't matter anymore, that people have made up their minds and I just have to WAIT. Ugh.
Also, nobody, and I mean nobody, has any incentive to make you feel otherwise. The candidates, the press, the polling organizations, and even bars...everyone benefits from Americans thinking the election will be nail biting close. Otherwise we wouldn't all vote tomorrow, we wouldn't be online all day looking for early returns, we wouldn't be glued to our TVs or crowding into bars and restaurants tomorrow night to watch the returns....watching the Internet or TV and subjecting ourselves to dozens and dozens of ads.
So I wonder...is this election really going to be as close as everyone is saying? Or is this just the last stage of election season public manipulation?
I don't think the election is close. You're right that almost everybody has incentive to pump this up, particularly the advertising divisions of all media outlets, spare NPR. Campaigns and SuperPACs are dumping money into all major news outlets right now. Considering this, and the non-polling of cellular telephones, I suspect it will be 300+ for the lefty.
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