Biden is winning the Michigan primary by a much bigger margin than Trump, but here's the NYT alert I get...

[Silent3]

Fuck this spin.

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. Typical

[usaf-vet]

19. I stopped reading/subscribing to the NYT after they helped Bush start an unnecessary war in Iraq.

They are not trustworthy.

[SomedayKindaLove]

20. That's when I punted on them, too

[DemocraticPatriot]

2. And Biden very easily defeated 'uncommitted', and had more 'raw votes'

than Trump....



(I guess they ran out of breath before they could complete their coverage of the primary.....)

[dalton99a]

3. Catapulting the "Abandon Biden" and "Genocide Joe" propaganda

[unblock]

4. Biden easily won on his way to an inevitable renomination, while trump faced opposition to his raping and fraud

There, fixed it.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. NYT is a disgrace.

[FHRRK]

6. even worse

Some here will defend this.

[Silent Type]

7. Think 99.9% of NYT's readers are smart enough not to get swayed by that.

[SCantiGOP]

24. The statement is true

Biden didn’t have an opponent.
I do see some similarities between people on the right who reject FOX for being too liberal now, and those on our side that get really upset about how slanted the NYT is. The NYT is still very liberal in the context of current American media.

[Silent Type]

25. Agree. I also understand why people react negatively to anything that favors trump or doesn't

bash him outright. But, NYT, WP, etc., aren’t going to endorse trump.

[Silent3]

28. "in the context of current American media" is an unhealthy context, however

Current American media works way too hard, in the wrong way, to try to appear unbiased, becoming biased to the right in the process.

[brooklynite]

8. I don't have an objection to the summary...

It doesn't say or imply that Trump did "better" than Biden....unless people want to imagine it does.

[aggiesal]

13. Really? ...

Biden 80.2%
Uncommitted 14%

Trump 67.2%
Haley 27.7%

Biden leads by 66+ percentage points
Trump leads by 39+ percentage points

Pendejo45 wins easily with only a 39% more
but Biden faces opposition with 66% lead.

The headline should have been reversed, with Biden winning easily and Pendejo45 faces opposition.

[brooklynite]

16. That's what the headline DID say...

...people here are getting riled up about an website notification.

If people really imagine that the Times WANTS to push voters to Trump, I'd say they're doing a lousy job of it.....

[Silent3]

18. I don't think the NYT actively wants to push voters toward Trump. It's more a problem...

…of framing they’ve let themselves get caught up in, an excess of both-siderism and trying so hard not to appear biased to the left that bias to the right occurs, letting themselves grow numb to the outrageous things Trump does and says as if those things shouldn’t still be big news that sounds loud alarms, too often treating Trump as just another candidate in just another horse race when he is, by reasonably unbiased, objective standards, a clear threat to democracy in America, falling into lazy narratives like “Biden is too old”, etc., etc.

They don’t have to be actively, consciously pushing people toward Trump to be hurting Biden and helping Trump.

[Polybius]

17. Biden is the sitting President

It's a little different than the idiot running in a primary against a big name Republican.

[brooklynite]

9. And here's the actual New York Times headline:

"Biden and Trump Win Michigan Primaries Amid Discontent in Both Parties"

[Silent3]

11. It's not slanted *every* time, but disproportionately Biden wins are downplayed n/t

[Tickle]

30. Biden got 617,728 votes

Rumples got 795,909 votes

That could be why we feel the down play

[mucifer]

10. I predicted this. Somehow we are in disarray. Not them nt.

[spanone]

12. K&R

[Ford_Prefect]

14. AND the endless MSM pretense that Trump looks like a viable political candidate instead of Putin's agent of chaos.

[SunSeeker]

15. The uncommitted vote in 2012 with Obama was 11%, tonight it is only about 14%. Bummer for Tlaib.

The share of “uncommitted” vote Tuesday stood at 14%, with 33% of expected votes counted. For comparison purposes, when Barack Obama ran for re-election in 2012, the uncommitted vote in Michigan’s Democratic primary was 11%.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-win-michigan-democratic-primary-election-rcna139691

[AZSkiffyGeek]

26. It's down to 12% now, but it's a lot more votes

In 2012, the turnout was MUCH smaller - there were less than 200K voters and only around 20K Uncommitted votes.
This time there are around 600K votes so far and almost 80K uncommitted.
It does seem odd that the turnout isso high in an essentially uncontested election though. Were people who wouldn't normally vote in an incumbent primary motivated to show up by the threat of the Uncommitted movement?
Is this similar to the write-in campaign in New Hampshire that was essentially a show of strength against Phillips and Williamson?
Are Democrats going to the polls in larger numbers for an incumbent to say that, yes, the vast majority of us DO want Biden?

[SunSeeker]

29. Yes, I would crawl over broken glass to vote for Biden. nt

[RussBLib]

21. The reporting is accurate

...it's incomplete, but accurate

[Silent3]

27. I never said inaccurate, I pointed out the spin n/t

[orleans]

22. and that is why i broke up with the nytimes nt

[BadgerMom]

23. This framing gives Trump cover when he challenges Biden's win in November.

It’s an issue now in terms of how undecided people perceive Biden. It’s an issue in the future because how it might be used/abused.

[Voltaire2]

31. It is a joke at this point.

[PJMcK]

32. A suggestion

Turn off the NYT alerts. They’re BS.

It’ll lower your blood pressure!