Flashback: Media Lovefest over Barack Obama’s First 100 Days
John Hayward
The media stressed Obama’s popularity in polls, conjured an aura of profound legitimacy around his margin of victory in the 2008 election, and placed great emphasis on polls that showed public optimism about America’s moving onto the “right track” because of his election.
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