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Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumWe have to call out the MSM whenever they use super-delegates as proof of HRC's inevitability.
Here are 2 different headlines from the AP/NY Times. Note the obvious bias.
Clinton's Super Tuesday Wins Narrows Sanders Path
Including superdelegates, the party insiders free to pick either candidate, her total delegate count is now at least 1,038, or 44 percent of the delegates needed to win the nomination. Sanders has at least 410 delegates.
But without super-delegates Clinton has 28% of the delegates needed to win the nomination, Bernie has 17.5%. There remains 74% of the pledged delegates to be decided (including California and the rust belt). Clinton has a good but not solid lead. It is also VERY possible that neither Clinton or Sanders will have the 2383 pledged delegates necessary to clinch the nomination before the convention.
Compare the above headline to this one:
AP Delegate Count: Trump Not Yet on Track to Win Nomination
While Trump has racked up 10 wins through the first 15 contests, he's won only 46 percent of the delegates that have been awarded since the voting began last month. It takes an outright majority of delegates to win the nomination.
To win enough delegates to claim the nomination, Trump would have to win 52 percent of the remaining delegates
In other words, Trump is supposedly in trouble because he is well on his way to winning a majority of delegates (the GOP doesn't have super-delegates).
Whenever this bias occurs in the MSM we need to flood the internet with the truth. Social networks are the only means left for people to speak truth to power.
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We have to call out the MSM whenever they use super-delegates as proof of HRC's inevitability. (Original Post)
jg10003
Mar 2016
OP
They don't care what we think. They're doing that DELIBERATELY to make people think Clinton is
in_cog_ni_to
Mar 2016
#1
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)1. They don't care what we think. They're doing that DELIBERATELY to make people think Clinton is
Inevitable...which is BULLSHIT.
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
blm
(113,112 posts)2. Reality: Trump is winning, but, without passing the 50% threshold that HRC is getting and that
Sanders received in his wins. Because it is a 2 person race.
So, the GOP can get away with saying that Trump might not get enough delegates to SECURE the nomination as long as Trump is held consistently under 40%.
As a corporate media hawk, I get the urgency of staying on top of their bias, but, this is not an example of their usual bias.
bernbabe
(370 posts)3. It's everywhere
They counted supers on Nightline last night, it's on the front page of my local conservative paper the Albuquerque Journal, etc.
leftcoastmountains
(2,968 posts)4. That means we would have to listen/watch to them. I've tried
to cut that out. Besides I agree they don't care what we think.