Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

One thing has nothing to do with the other. The media just tries to create buzz. That's how they blow up ratings and sell newspapers and magazines.
If they said "offyear elections, not really important, local issues trump all others in non presidential year elections" then nobody would watch.
If you can somehow make these a referendum on Obama (who BTW has something like a 57% approval rating in these two states) then you can get attention and ratings.

What's really sad is that republisheep like 12dicks actually believe it. I guess they have to believe something like that , because admitting that the Reagan revolution that has wreaked havoc on our country's finances, infrastructure, middle class etc for the past 30 years is finally over and they're about to spend a couple of decades in the wilderness, is just too painful.