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Mainstream Media Blew Midterms by Kurtz: O'Donnell, Tea Party and Obama

Even top journalists were blindsided by Christine O’Donnell, don’t get the Tea Party, and feel Obama’s getting short shrift. Howard Kurtz on what the mainstream press got wrong.

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The media narrative by now is set in concrete: The voters are teed off, rising up, mad as hell and ready to wreak havoc.

There is a whiff, if you read between the lines, that the expected outcome is somehow unjust.

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