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kpete

(71,978 posts) Mon Feb 17, 2020, 09:55 AM Feb 2020

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2nd & 3rd Place Winner Are ALWAYS The Lead Story! Thats Just How This WORKS! (by: Tom Tomorrow)

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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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2nd & 3rd Place Winner Are ALWAYS The Lead Story! Thats Just How This WORKS! (by: Tom Tomorrow) (Original Post) kpete Feb 2020 OP

Unless you came in 3rd in Iowa, of course. blm Feb 2020 #1

+ 62 billion CentralMass Feb 2020 #2

Love the dig at Chris Matthews... nt Fiendish Thingy Feb 2020 #3

Sigh a neighbor candidate wins NH is not news, the M$M made too much of it in the first place uponit7771 Feb 2020 #4

That's very nicely done. k&r n/t Laelth Feb 2020 #5

actually if anyone has a right to complain here about minimizing a win it is Pete dsc Feb 2020 #6

blm

(113,037 posts)

1. Unless you came in 3rd in Iowa, of course.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2020, 10:05 AM

Feb 2020

Silence of the Hams

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)

2. + 62 billion

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2020, 10:13 AM

Feb 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

Fiendish Thingy

(15,568 posts)

3. Love the dig at Chris Matthews... nt

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2020, 10:48 AM

Feb 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

uponit7771

(90,323 posts)

4. Sigh a neighbor candidate wins NH is not news, the M$M made too much of it in the first place

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2020, 10:51 AM

Feb 2020

... and in this case it was correct for them to focus on 2nd and 3rd place where they were not neighbor candidates.

The bigger news would've been if the neighbor candidate lost in NH

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

5. That's very nicely done. k&r n/t

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2020, 11:22 AM

Feb 2020

-Laelth

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

dsc

(52,155 posts)

6. actually if anyone has a right to complain here about minimizing a win it is Pete

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2020, 11:27 AM

Feb 2020

An openly gay man won the Iowa Caucus (by the way it has been and still is measured) and he got nothing like the coverage that Obama got when he won in 2008. To be fair, Iowa is a lot to blame in this regard, but still the media narratives are nothing alike in those two victories. Now Pete also took 2nd in New Hampshire (quite nearly winning) while Klobuchar got double what any poll said she would while Sanders scraped by in a state that he won by 22 points 4 years ago. Despite the fact that Pete is leading in delegates, won one contest and took second in the other he isn't being treated like a front runner in any press accounts at all.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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