New reports suggest that perhaps President Barack Obama gathered the 303 Electoral College votes that won him the presidency because the American media steered attention away from economic problems, and toward the social issues that were not as pressing, according to Fox News.

Unemployment on Election Day was 7.9 percent, which is higher than it had been when Obama took office back in 2008, the news report stated. Additionally, debt and deficit rates were off the charts.

However, despite the unfortunate numbers - and also the fact that polling data showed Americans believing that Romney could lead the economy better than his opponent- Obama still won, and some are stating that it was because social media did not publicize the figures throughout the election.

"The media lauded Obama no matter how horrendous his record, and they savaged Obama's Republican contenders as ridiculous pretenders," Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell said.

Fox added the following:

"The political bloc that most helped push Obama to reelection was the American media. All throughout election night, pundits and reporters were talking about the economy and how that had impacted the campaign. That was seldom the story the news media told throughout the election."

After Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie raved about President Obama and the efforts he was taking to help victims badly affected by the storm. Media outlets were all over Christie's promotion of Obama's good deeds and in days following Hurricane Sandy, Gallup revealed that Obama's disapporval numbers did not go down as it had in the past. Their final count, from Nov. 4-6, showed that Obama's approval rate was 50 percent and disapproval was 44 percent.

Obama took office in 2009 and at the end of that fiscal year, the deficit was $1.4 trillion. A debt clock calculated using figures from the U.S Department of Treasury stated that the national debt has continued to increase an average of $3.86 billion per day since Sept. 28, 2007. Based on the estimated population of the United States, each citizen's share of this debt is $51,679.95.