2016 Postmortem

Stainless

(719 posts) Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:17 PM Mar 2016

"Sanders Wins 2 States, But Clinton Retains Lead" - AP Headline on MSN

Another excellent example of misleading media bias.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sanders-wins-alaska-washington-clinton-holds-delegate-lead/ar-BBqWFmD?li=BBnb7Kz

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"Sanders Wins 2 States, But Clinton Retains Lead" - AP Headline on MSN (Original Post) Stainless Mar 2016 OP

MUST TAMP DOWN ENTHUSIASM! Keep a lid on this! Ed Suspicious Mar 2016 #1

The reek of desperation. Lizzie Poppet Mar 2016 #2

Total BS. Should have said: "Sanders Wins 2 States, But Clinton Retains Nomination" onehandle Mar 2016 #3

Didn't you say he'd only win one state? Lololllz morningfog Mar 2016 #4

Sanders wins 2 states but no one likes him. wendylaroux Mar 2016 #5

Whoa paulthompson Mar 2016 #6

The AP headline is quite true 6chars Mar 2016 #7

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)

1. MUST TAMP DOWN ENTHUSIASM! Keep a lid on this!

Reply to Stainless (Original post)

Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:19 PM

Mar 2016

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)

2. The reek of desperation.

Reply to Stainless (Original post)

Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:21 PM

Mar 2016

Smells good, actually...

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

3. Total BS. Should have said: "Sanders Wins 2 States, But Clinton Retains Nomination"

Reply to Stainless (Original post)

Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:23 PM

Mar 2016

Silly AP.

morningfog

(18,115 posts)

4. Didn't you say he'd only win one state? Lololllz

Reply to onehandle (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:28 PM

Mar 2016

wendylaroux

(2,925 posts)

5. Sanders wins 2 states but no one likes him.

Reply to Stainless (Original post)

Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:30 PM

Mar 2016

paulthompson

(2,398 posts)

6. Whoa

Reply to Stainless (Original post)

Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:38 PM

Mar 2016

I just started another thread posting how terrible the Washington Post coverage was:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511583036

But the Associated Press is even WORSE! Amongst other things, it's remarkable how they managed to not mention the actual margins of victories at all.

And this bit is a masterpiece of bias (the only mention of actual election result numbers), making it seem Sanders only gained a couple dozen delegates:

He was unlikely to emerge from his Saturday sweep with significantly more delegates, winning at least 36 delegates to Clinton's 11 for the day after his victories in Alaska and Washington. More are likely to be allocated to Sanders in several weeks, when Washington state Democratic party releases vote shares by district.

Back in realityland, we already know he's going to cut into Clinton's lead by at least 55 delegates for the night, and that's not counting Hawaii yet. UGH!

6chars

(3,967 posts)

7. The AP headline is quite true

Reply to Stainless (Original post)

Sat Mar 26, 2016, 11:29 PM

Mar 2016

but to be fair, most people expected that Clinton would retain the lead after tonight

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