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2016 Postmortem

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11. Calling it may have been planned in advance

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 09:29 AM

Jun 2016

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The AP has covered a lot of elections. They have written procedures. [View all] gollygee Jun 2016 OP

I'd love to have an interview with the reporters in question. joshcryer Jun 2016 #2

They generally don't like to make themselves the news. gollygee Jun 2016 #3

True. joshcryer Jun 2016 #6

Bernie has certainly had more people at his rallies gollygee Jun 2016 #5

Truth... it's decided by votes... MrMickeysMom Jun 2016 #15

They have always done this gollygee Jun 2016 #8

Calling an election is different than covering an election Armstead Jun 2016 #9

LOL gollygee Jun 2016 #10

Calling it may have been planned in advance Autumn Jun 2016 #11

I'm not sure what that's supposed to show gollygee Jun 2016 #12

Reporting =/= Predicting hellofromreddit Jun 2016 #13

They're reporting on information they've gotten from the supers gollygee Jun 2016 #14

There's a difference, though. hellofromreddit Jun 2016 #16

I mean that this is how they do it gollygee Jun 2016 #17

The supers will follow the pledged delegates. stone space Jun 2016 #21