2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCNN is sitting on positive Bernie results again, they're so full of shit.
They have been telecasting Republican results for over an hour even with less than 1% of the vote counted.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)they want to call LA for clinton first and then BTW bernie won kansas and Neb.
Nictuku
(3,570 posts)... I'm on MSNBC, and zilch for Democratic results, tons of republican.
Is someone holding back the numbers? (can the DNC do that?)
TDale313
(7,820 posts)I thought I heard Kansas would release theirs at 9ET?
xloadiex
(628 posts)Bernie is giving a speech and loudmouth Tweety is talking over it about Rubio coming in a strong third. I quickly turned the channel.
GeoWilliam750
(2,519 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)You are confused.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)That's their job, of course. It's not news, it's entertainment.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)you knew that didn't you.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)CNN has nothing to do with that. Good grief some of you people are completely clueless.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)DrDan
(20,411 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)you knew that
DrDan
(20,411 posts)you knew that
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and we are seeing those now in the US. Starting in 2000 to be exact,
This is not a conspiracy, but someday a historian or two will write about this period, and your decendants and mine will ask very similar questions to what other people ask about the rise of totalitarian states.
I just vote to remain in practice, becuase we are in a pretend democracy.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)but . . . every little twist and turn is not a conspiracy.
Some of these posts right now are downright embarrassing - "CNN is deliberately withholding results so as to announce the Louisiana victory diminishing the Ne and KS results."
good grief
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and you are mistakes if you do not understand the role of the media in totalitarian states. We crossed that threshold oh truly in 2000, but I would say started in the 1990s. We will rue the day, or should be already, that the telecommunications act of 1996 was passed and signed. (See the rise of Trump. He farts, BREAKING NEWS)
And no, it is not a conspiracy. I will grant you that. It is editorial choice. And this is the kind of editorial choices that lead to propaganda and the manufacturing of consent. As I said, I vote to remain in practice, It really, really does not count.
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)the polls close and they didn't want too many people hearing about Bernie's victories until they had voted in that state and they can instantly use that to offset Bernie's wins.
Just more mass psychology games from CNN in manipulating the public.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)If you want to blame someone blame the DNC.
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Would you like them for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
Get ready.
You will be dining on those results.
TheProgressive
(1,656 posts)They showed exit polls showing Sanders winning in Mass and
they won't do that again... especially since Billy was there messing
with the election process.
No fuss, no mess.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Skid Rogue
(711 posts)but they're all obsessed with Trump. We're just an afterthought.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)doc03
(35,148 posts)like they haven't been giving him free campaign time all along. It's the print media and other networks not us.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)redwitch
(14,933 posts)Looking at results for NE on Omaha.com. It is the strangest way to vote! I can't imagine an election day where my county votes from 1-3 and another from 6-8 etc.
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)why not ignore CNN and go straight to the state results?
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)noamnety
(20,234 posts)I was listening to NPR and heard all about Cruz winning kansas or something, and then the report wrapped up with something like there were elections in 3 other states as well. They didn't mention the states, nothing. Then I logged in here expecting to see results - and nothing. I started to question whether I remembered that wrong, that maybe there were no democratic votes today ... such weird reporting!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)goes to commercial.
No %s of the vote.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Nyan
(1,192 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)It may not be a good enough excuse, I'm so unwilling to turn regular cable on these days...
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)where Hillary should win in which case they can instantly use that to offset Bernie's momentum before it grows too fast.
As I posted they have been telecasting Republican results for over an hour and they started with less than 1% of the vote counted.
CNN is trying to establish a frame on today's results before it gets out of hand.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Especially when you're afraid to go up agains this desperate network of corporatists, PERCEPTION is everything.
I was just trying to play devil's advocate, but the oligarchy is really fucking set to shape it any way they can.
AmBlue
(3,079 posts)CNN is one of the many large corporations Hillary stands for and Bernie does not.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Anybody that is endorsing Clinton is shaking in their boots right now - not for fear of Bernie Sanders, but because they know the electorate is so angry that they aren't going to vote for anything that smells establishment.
It has to make the people that spent millions trying to prop up failing politicians turn around and look at what horrible investments they made.
You don't get $459,000 in donations and fail to work the wheel. You get that cash, and try the best you can to make out like a bandit with it by putting in the least amount of work you possibly can in your "investment".
Thus the same shit happens over and over again.
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Peace to you.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)but I decided not to remind them of this anymore. It will be a "shock" and there will be plenty of gnashing of teeth, and rending of clothes.
jillan
(39,451 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)For every Dem in the GE except Hillary. They will write in Trump
OZi
(155 posts)Bernie scares them more.