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Uh, I would count that media companies shown to be colluding with Hillary ran delegate counts with superdelegates included to be a massive propaganda campaign t
by SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
Uh, I would count that media companies shown to be colluding with Hillary ran delegate counts with superdelegates included to be a massive propaganda campaign to influence voters for Hillary by making them feel there's no viable alternative.
It's hard to estimate the impact of that, and I dont recall it happening as much in 2008.
- tptacek 10y agoYou think some media somewhere about "superdelegates" accounts 3.7 million additional votes for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders? I agree to disagree with you about that. Want to know the popular vote margin in 2008, where the superdelegates were also a huge part of the narrative? -273,000.
- SomeStupidPoint 10y agoNo, I think virtually all of the vote tallies, across virtually all media showing superdelegates included with pledged delegrelevant, by prsenting Bernie as having to make up over a thousand votes instead of dozens, early in the race. That said, you bring up relevant points and I think we should agree to disagree. (Not much to be said, just correcting your summary of my position.)
- tptacek 10y agoIf anything, the media bias is in exactly the opposite direction: a horse race between Sanders and Clinton sells advertising. It's literally the reason we have the term "horse race" --- because the media has been selling us this story for generations.