2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumVoters Outraged as Media Accused of Falsely, Preemptively Crowning Clinton
"Shame on you AP! Superdelegates don't vote until the convention," tweeted documentary filmmaker Josh Fox. "Story of Clinton nomination is false and aims to suppress voters."
The Bernie Sanders campaign and progressives across the nation expressed mixtures of frustration and contempt Monday night after major news outletsfollowing declarations by the Associated Press and NBC Newsignored the explicit instructions about how primary delegates should be tallied and declared that Hillary Clinton has won the nomination of the Democratic Party.
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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/06/voters-outraged-media-accused-falsely-preemptively-crowning-clinton
highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)I've officially removed the AP app from my phone. Fuck them. At this point they're no different than Fixed News.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Clinton is going to lock up the nomination tonight. So it's a matter of a news media outlet jumping the gun by 24 hours.
Ace Rothstein
(3,139 posts)Nobody will even be talking about this next week at this time.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)TwilightZone
(25,423 posts)Or this is his first rodeo.
That's fine. It doesn't change anything.
MFM008
(19,803 posts)Said it didn't matter what any of the candidates wanted they were going to call it.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,160 posts).
I am dumbfounded by the people who supported voter disenfranchisement, voter registration delays, same-day voter registration, and the media methods that occurred this primary season--just to get "their" candidate elected.
Mark my word, as in the past--these same methods will be used against Democrats in November.
So while some people here were cheering on these methods during the primary season, they will resurface again.
I get to sit back and watch those happy campers all of a sudden bitch and moan about the election being stolen.
The media controls the messaging in this election, and they will guide "their" candidate to victory.
Let's just hope "their" candidates are Democrats.
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Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Sadly, not