The above picture is an obviously photoshopped picture depicting Mitt Romney’s face superimposed over President Harry S. Truman’s face the day after the election in 1948. The Chicago Tribune famously called the election for Dewey when in fact Truman had been the victor.

Today there has been outrage and rallying against polling data from right wing media and multiple right wing personalities including Karl Rove. They suggest that something like the above picture is likely to happen if voters and mainstream media believe the polls that are currently coming out. These polls show President Obama ahead by margins of 5 points nationally, and 10 points in states like Ohio and Florida.

Fox News, a media outlet often lambasted as right wing, is the source for some of what has been described today as “Poll Trutherism”. Fox itself has conducted polls of its own. These polls show exactly the same result as the “main stream media” polls. A Fox News poll conducted today showed the president with a 5 point lead nationally. Fact.

What is disturbing is the current air of scrutiny that is coming against scientifically proved methods of conducting an accurate representation of the electorate as of this moment. In denying these polls, these conservative media outlets and personalities are denying science and the scientific method that is polling. It is analogous to the denial of climate change, or the denial of evolution. If one wants to believe that climate change doesn’t exist that is their right. If one wants to deny evolution, again that is their right. It is the influence of others to believe as they, these right leaning personalities and media outlets, say that is most disturbing.

Could the above picture happen? Most likely not. Polls have been wrong in the past, however, multiple polls, conducted by multiple media outlets with multiple “political biases” according to some, cannot all be wrong.

This is straight denial in the face of facts.