and once it took hold, they helped to repeat the mantra "disastrous debate" (the most common "term" initially, and then some synonymous term afterwards) a million times in every article for the past 3 1/2 months straight.
If someone were to generate a word cloud of the media and their articles mentioning Biden, that would come up with a huge font.
I remember the same crap happening to Obama after his first debate with Rmoney. He went on to have 2 more debates IIRC, but it took a long time to disinfect the characterization from that first debate. The result of their self-serving "analysis", would trigger even more of the foaming-at-the-mouth "horse race poll narratives" that resulted in the purported "gold standard" of polling - Gallup - to declare that Rmoney would win the 2012 election. Thanks to that debate! It didn't matter how he did after.
Romney 49%, Obama 48% in Gallup's Final Election Survey
Early voting so far breaks 49% for Obama and 48% for Romney
Gallup Editors
PRINCETON, NJ -- President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are within one percentage point of each other in Gallup's final pre-election survey of likely voters, with Romney holding 49% of the vote, and Obama 48%. After removing the 3% of undecided voters from the results and allocating their support proportionally to the two major candidates, Gallup's final allocated estimate of the race is 50% for Romney and 49% for Obama.
The survey was conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking Nov. 1-4.
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https://news.gallup.com/poll/158519/romney-obama-gallup-final-election-survey.aspx
It's history repeating.
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