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leftcoastmountains

(2,968 posts)
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:58 PM Mar 2016

Bill Press: Media missing the boat on Bernie

Bernie Sanders was the big winner in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state on March 26, but you could sum up the media coverage in one sentence: “Bernie Sanders won three states on Saturday but he didn’t make a dent in Hillary Clinton’s lead among delegates.”

Wrong, wrong, wrong. When will the lame-stream media stop merely regurgitating spin from the Clinton campaign and start doing its job?

The truth is, there’s something profoundly significant happening in the Democratic primary — one might even say there’s a “political revolution” underway — and most political reporters are missing it entirely.

Have you noticed? All they talk about is “the math.” You know the drill. We hear it over and over: It’s mathematically impossible for Sanders to catch up. Clinton has an insurmountable lead. He can never win by big enough margins to make a difference. Even if he gets close, superdelegates will deny him the nomination. So he might as well just get out of the way and let Clinton start to focus on November.

There’s only one thing wrong with that theory: Sanders keeps winning, and Clinton keeps losing.

http://linkis.com/thehill.com/opinion/1Vr0r
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Bill Press: Media missing the boat on Bernie (Original Post) leftcoastmountains Mar 2016 OP
The media doesn't seem to be all that bright, just greedy and egotistical. nt ladjf Mar 2016 #1
Bernie has more millennials supporting him than Clinton & Trump put together. pacalo Mar 2016 #2
And to think Bill Press was Wellstone ruled Mar 2016 #3

pacalo

(24,721 posts)
2. Bernie has more millennials supporting him than Clinton & Trump put together.
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 09:27 PM
Mar 2016

And the addition of those young men & women to the Democratic Party would be quite a prize.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. And to think Bill Press was
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 09:36 PM
Mar 2016

all Hillary. Glad he is looking a the bigger picture,there was a major sea change after the Nevada Caucus's.

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