Some true believers calling election for Obama … and Romney

September 29, 2012 - 12:14 pm | Category: Politics

We don’t know why anyone would want to call the presidential race over. We haven’t even had a single debate. The fun is just starting.

But in the last week we’ve had a few commentators and politicos say they already know the outcome. None of them stepped out of their predictable ideological silos, so the early prognostications didn’t make much news. But here they are:

– Cenk Uygur, host of Current TV’s “The Young Turks,” said this week that “barring a major miracle, I’m calling the election right now. It’s already over.” The liberal outlet, founded by Al Gore, has supported President Obama all along. Uygur’s reasoning: “Ohio voters have correctly picked the winning presidential candidate in the last 11 elections. But it gets better. No Republican has ever won an election without winning Ohio. [Romney is] down by 10. We don’t have that much time to go. Tick-tock, tick-tock. This thing is over.”

– Ed Schultz of MSNBC. Schultz hedged a bit, but he said Thursday that “President Obama is moving in for the final knockout punch.” In case anyone missed the message, the liberal news outlet offered an on-screen graphic: “The beginning of the end.” Schultz offered as evidence of an Obama wave pictures of early voters in Iowa, updates on the latest polls in swing states and a report on an embarrassing old video of Republican Mitt Romney talking “harvesting” companies, with no mention of creating jobs.