"They use all the dirty tricks in the book including biased polls (how can Obama be up 58% - 38%?)"
That's not a biased poll, that's Intrade, which we talked about before.
You can read some about them -
https://www.google.com/search?q=in+...pw.r_qf.&fp=fd8d87dbf551ab53&biw=1216&bih=510
Based in Ireland, not this country. Prediction market type stuff. People actually putting their money up, buying shares. If you check their history, it's one of the most accurate things out there. They got like 49/50 states right last election, predicted the Electoral vote literally within 1 vote. You can ask somebody, say a Republican who will win the election, they'll probably say Romney. Ask the same person to put a few thousand dollars of their own money up on who they think will win, you might get a different answer.
In regards to MSM, went over that to death. It's funny you keep mentioning that when they go after everybody and where were they when you had Republicans in the White House 12 years straight with Reagan/Bush or when Bush Jr. went 8 years straight, even losing the popular vote?
In regards to Ryan, more stuff I don't like about him. Another anti-science type. Against abortion, even in cases of rape and incest. Against in vitro fertilization, against step cell research etc. Things that can actually help people. So yeah, they fired up their base, but probably fired up the Democrat base even more with that pick. I mean who do they think Republicans are going to vote for, Obama, Democrats? They already have the right vote. They need the independents, moderates. But they keep doing this stupid stuff with picking extreme right type folk and then wonder why they get an ass whippin come election time. It'll be bigger than Obama's win over Bush.