2016 Postmortem

Lodestar

(2,388 posts) Fri May 20, 2016, 11:48 AM May 2016

Notice in this NYT poll...Bernie's name is not included in questions about

shared values, trustworthiness, leadership, etc. He IS included (and scores the highest)
in the favorability rating, but is not included in the other questions. Only Hillary and Trump.
Or perhaps they did collect that info but didn't share it with us.

http://www.nytimes.com/images/2016/05/20/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf

Gee I wonder why.....? Could it be that by
including Bernie, it would have revealed how low both Hillary and Trump score in those
categories compared to him? It would have shown that most Americans' values line up
with Bernie Sanders....and I'm sure that is a big threat.

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Notice in this NYT poll...Bernie's name is not included in questions about (Original Post) Lodestar May 2016 OP

No Doubt pmorlan1 May 2016 #1

"Top candidates's qualities" - not about him DrDan May 2016 #2

More likely and realistic answer to your question, is they know he will not be running for President boston bean May 2016 #3

Then why bother including him at all? Lodestar May 2016 #6

He is not the nominee Demsrule86 May 2016 #4

Look for a revised version of the story online BernieforPres2016 May 2016 #5

And how do you think Bernie would have fared if they HAD included it? Lodestar May 2016 #7

Of course, that's why it was a mistake to even mention him BernieforPres2016 May 2016 #8

pmorlan1

(2,096 posts)

1. No Doubt

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 11:55 AM

May 2016

The power structure in this country is trying it's best to squash his candidacy. They think that people don't notice but fewer and fewer people are fooled by their corrupt machinations.

DrDan

(20,411 posts)

2. "Top candidates's qualities" - not about him

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 11:56 AM

May 2016

boston bean

(36,221 posts)

3. More likely and realistic answer to your question, is they know he will not be running for President

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 11:57 AM

May 2016

in the fall.

Lodestar

(2,388 posts)

6. Then why bother including him at all?

Reply to boston bean (Reply #3)

Fri May 20, 2016, 12:03 PM

May 2016

I think it's pretty clear that Bernie would have swept the vote in all of
those categories It would have shown that the VALUES of this country
line up with Bernie. They can't allow that.

Demsrule86

(68,543 posts)

4. He is not the nominee

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 11:57 AM

May 2016

Why waste your time?

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)

5. Look for a revised version of the story online

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 11:58 AM

May 2016

They need to take Bernie out of the net favorable ratings. There shouldn't be any reference to him at all.

Lodestar

(2,388 posts)

7. And how do you think Bernie would have fared if they HAD included it?

Reply to BernieforPres2016 (Reply #5)

Fri May 20, 2016, 12:04 PM

May 2016

I think people know exactly how it would have turned out.

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)

8. Of course, that's why it was a mistake to even mention him

Reply to Lodestar (Reply #7)

Fri May 20, 2016, 12:40 PM

May 2016

If the New York Times was still a real newspaper, they could do a story questioning why it looks like we'll have 2 widely hated and distrusted candidates for President when there is a third candidate who is rated as trustworthy and who has positive net favorables.

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