Degs: I worked there, and saw the bias first hand. What I saw was reinforced by the AP polling data. Most journalists are Democrats, and a few of them are liberal Democrats. The content bias that they include in their copy is seldom intentional -- they simply aren't aware of other points of view because they seldom see them. All of them are attempting to be the good doctor, loawer or Soldier you describe --- that doesn't mean they are capable of doing so.

There is plenty of credible data showing this, and only someone being wilfully obtuse could deny that the big media was in the tank for Obama in the last election cycle. You discount the data, but that doesn't make it wrong.

Your data about the senate is interesting, but he House doesn't work that way. And it doesn't matter that the Republicans, according to some data, do better when more voters stay at home. About half of all eligible voters vote -- that's a large enough statistical sampling to reflect the views of the voters. It is ludicrous to say our House of Represenatives isn't representative -- does that mean it's current composition is also not representative?

Dirty political tricks are by no means confined to the GOP. I once had a Democrat official describe the way his party used to throw GOP votes into the river back in the late 1940s. No convictions at all? Maybe that has something to do with the Democratic dominance of the House and Senate for most of the last 60 years.