KGW happily doling out Oregon GOP's political propaganda?

Eyes rolling.

Since yesterday, with the arrival of President Obama in Portland for a fundraiser today, KGW has been following a propaganda on how Oregon might be a swing state, and building up on it with false assertions.

Rebroadcasting an interview with Oregon GOP chairperson Allen Alley, comes the following scenario: if Mitt can win five battleground states, then Oregon - with what he suggests has just a single-digit lead for Obama - could become a focal point.

• First, as I've showed before, Mitt's behind in all but two battleground states, and in some of those states, he's down big.
• Second, the last poll conducted - now a month old - shows Obama up by 8 points with 10% undecided.  That's a lot of ground to make up, for all of 7 electoral votes, from a state that has voted Democrat in SIX straight presidential elections.
• Third, if anyone else in the rest of the nation actually thought that Oregon was a potentially competitive race, they'd be doing a lot more polling than just 5 in the last 13 months.  Compare that to what pundits think is a battleground state - Nevada - and you'll see that there were 5 polls in less than 3 months.

Talk about wishful thinking... or desperation.  Sure, anything can happen between now and November 6th, but I've said it before, this election is solidly going in the Obama direction.  And finally, RCP has overlaid past elections to compare to this year's.

What a competitive race looks like (Kerry vs. Bush)

What the 2012 election more closely resembles.

The thing to pay attention to, is the bottom half of each graph, where a solid blue shows a net lead (from the aggregation of several national polls) for the Democratic candidate, and a solid red shows a net lead for the Republican candidate. The top one indicates 2012, the bottom indicates the comparative election cycle. I think the solid blue speaks for itself.

Even if the gap is small - for now - the 2012 tracking is about as positive for Democrats, as you can possibly get, given the state of the economy. It's absolutely mind-boggling that a Republican opponent is doing so poorly.

But what's disappointing, is that KGW took Allen Alley's statements at face value without question, and rebroadcast it.

And by the way, why hasn't KGW told you about the current NBC / WSJ poll showing Obama up 6 points -- is it because it doesn't fit their false narrative of a competitive race?  I think so: instead of revealing this big gap in the head-to-head poll, reporter Laurel Porter only gleaned from that poll that Romney led Obama in opinions about whether that candidate had policies that could best improve the economy.

Repeat: an NBC affiliate selectively chose to highlight a subset of a major poll from its parent network, rather than report the headline statistic from that poll.

Isn't that a clear case of bias?  But wait, there's more.

Laurel Porter has been using video from Greg Walden, Oregon's sole Republican in its congressional representation, who says that Obama doesn't understand how small businesses operate.
Are you sitting down, ready to laugh?  Here's the kicker:


Greg Walden voted AGAINST the 2010 Small Business Jobs Act, which expanded the group of people who could qualify for a loan, as well as raised the caps on (both large and micro) loans, administered by the SBA, and for companies who wanted to export their goods.

The very lending facility that small businesses rely on to grow, Greg Walden voted against.  This wasn't even an omnibus bill, and Greg Walden voted against it.  This wasn't a big spending bill like the ARRA stimulus bill that produced an increase in SBA money available for lending.  This was a bill that targeted SBA programs and funding, and Greg Walden voted against it.  No retort or questions from Laurel Porter to Greg Walden about his politically-charged vote against the SBA.

For shame...everyone.