Tied! The Media Narrative

All abouts the Liberal Blogosphere is disgust at the fact that the apparent narrative selected by the media for this election is that it is a dead heat tie between John McCain (I wrote John W. McSame initially, but I don't want to resort to such name calling) and Barack Obama. Many in the blogosphere are moaning the fact the media doesn't tell the true story which is the impending Obamanami that will sweep the nation around November. I personally am coming to like the chosen narrative for several reasons, that in true bloggin' fashion, will follow.

First, the narrative of a tie is good because it means we have to work harder. We don't get lulled into thinking that we are ahead so that means we can coast. Obama looks terrible when he coasts. He is going to have to be a scrapper to win this election, and even if the campaign's internals say they should coast, the media narrative prevents that coasting from occurring.

Secondly, what are the alternative narratives? We could have the Obama inevitability narrative, or Obamanevitability, as the kids are calling it. This is a terrible narrative for many many reasons, not the least of which Clintonevitability worked out so well for Hilldozer (I miss her). Related to this point is that if Obama is the front runner by far, Little Mac (go go Boxing Rapist's Punch Out!) becomes the underdog. That is a bad narrative to have because we don't want McCain to be the underdog. With the way McCain and Bush are tag teaming on policy these days it should be impossible for McCain to be considered the underdog. That will change if the liberal blogosphere gets its way in shaping the media narrative to be Obamanevitability though.

If the liberal blogosphere succeeds though, the question will become is the success of changing the media narrative worth the potential harm to Obama by becoming seen as inevitable. I don't think that success is worth it though because the Obamanevitability has the advantage of becoming closer and closer to being true. Which means the liberal blogosphere shouldn't need much help in getting it to become the media narrative. What would be harder is forcing the media narrative to remain "the Elections tied!"