Guarding the Henhouse

I happen to know Pajama Guy watches Fox News regularly. So he must be aware of their latest polls which show Kerry with a slight lead in the national poll and a solid lead in Florida.

Are they gonna call this one early?

Pajama Guy responds: The Fox poll is good news for Kerry. It's been the major poll with the least wild fluctuations. In 2000, moreover, Fox had the national race a dead heat. (The polls tightened in the last weekend after Fox broke the story of Bush's drunk driving arrest.) I'm sure that Fox will call the race as it sees it. As the highest rated cable news network, it has far more to gain by being indeed "Fair and Balanced" than it has by trying to get Bush re-elected (as if it had the power to do that.) What's more, I think that CBS's Rathergate, ABC's "The Note"-gate, the New York Times NYTro-gate and the indisputable leftward slant of the overall media coverage of this campaign are tamping down most of the grumbling about Fox's alleged bias. One thing is clear -- Fox is a heck of a lot closer to the middle than CBS or the NYT.

Pajama Guy adds: That said, the Kerry spot thinks the Fox poll is funky.