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Please re-read my comments about the feedback loop between media and voting behavior. There is overwhelming statistical evidence that the depiction of both cand

by uoaei 2y ago

Please re-read my comments about the feedback loop between media and voting behavior. There is overwhelming statistical evidence that the depiction of both candidates in mainstream news channels favored Clinton and denigrated Sanders. Making the obvious conclusion, of course polls would reflect this disparity.

gruez 2y ago
>There is overwhelming statistical evidence that the depiction of both candidates in mainstream news channels favored Clinton and denigrated Sanders. So you take national poll numbers, apply a handwavy fudge factor for "mainstream news channels favored Clinton and denigrated Sanders", and conclude that Sanders is the "compromise candidate"? Doesn't seem very rigorous. It also doesn't address the fact that Sanders was the left-most candidate, and there are republicans to the right of him and Clinton. On a spectrum of Sanders, Clinton, and whatever other Republicans there are, there's no plausible case to be made that Sanders is somehow the "compromise" (median?) candidate. Finally, the" mainstream news" denigrated Trump as well, arguably more. Does that make him the "compromise candidate" even more?
- uoaei 2y ago
  Certainly not, and you should be ashamed to shove such falsities in my mouth. The studies I saw focused on the negative sentiments toward Clinton: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/why-does-sanders-do-better-clinton-against-trump-n586476 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/why-does-sand... and section 3 of https://sbp-brims.org/2016/proceedings/PO_139.pdf https://sbp-brims.org/2016/proceedings/PO_139.pdf Would you like to revise your comments now that you understand your assumptions are misplaced? I suggest you do a lot more reading into the sentiments depicted by mainstream news sources on each candidate before replying.

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Please re-read my comments about the feedback loop between media and voting behavior. There is overwhelming statistical evidence that the depiction of both cand

by uoaei 2y ago

gruez 2y ago
>There is overwhelming statistical evidence that the depiction of both candidates in mainstream news channels favored Clinton and denigrated Sanders. So you take national poll numbers, apply a handwavy fudge factor for "mainstream news channels favored Clinton and denigrated Sanders", and conclude that Sanders is the "compromise candidate"? Doesn't seem very rigorous. It also doesn't address the fact that Sanders was the left-most candidate, and there are republicans to the right of him and Clinton. On a spectrum of Sanders, Clinton, and whatever other Republicans there are, there's no plausible case to be made that Sanders is somehow the "compromise" (median?) candidate. Finally, the" mainstream news" denigrated Trump as well, arguably more. Does that make him the "compromise candidate" even more?
- uoaei 2y ago
  Certainly not, and you should be ashamed to shove such falsities in my mouth. The studies I saw focused on the negative sentiments toward Clinton: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/why-does-sanders-do-better-clinton-against-trump-n586476 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/why-does-sand... and section 3 of https://sbp-brims.org/2016/proceedings/PO_139.pdf https://sbp-brims.org/2016/proceedings/PO_139.pdf Would you like to revise your comments now that you understand your assumptions are misplaced? I suggest you do a lot more reading into the sentiments depicted by mainstream news sources on each candidate before replying.