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The Ghost of a Flea11/02/2012 2:52:59 pm PDT

‘How Can That Be?’ More on the ‘They Can’t Both Be Right’ Saga

Fallows on polling issues is worth reading, but the coda (which is actually a quote from a reader) is a bit chilling:

There is an additional, more pernicious aspect to the Fox News-Crossroads-GOP fostering of a Romney-is-winning narrative: de-legitimizing an Obama win. Time and again, the right’s narrative toward Obama (and earlier, toward Clinton) has been that his very presidency is illegitimate. (He’s not American, he’s Kenyan; the unemployment numbers aren’t real, they’re cooked; Obamacare isn’t Romneycare, it’s Soviet communism; and on and on.)