2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 12.8%. That's the margin Hillary won CA by. Remember those suspect polls that were [View all]Corporate666
(587 posts)of the effects of "bandwagon voting" vs "f-you voting" (my term for those that cast a protest vote)?
I agree with your assertion that it rains on both sides. I don't think the BS voters in CA thought it was anything but a long shot, I think they had to know at this point he was way behind and really needed to win all of yesterdays states by large margins. Should the press not report NJ results too, to keep the hope alive that BS could win?
In my opinion, not reporting facts for the express purpose of helping one specific candidate to win is anti-democracy. To give a totally unrelated example - it's like when a species goes extinct for reasons other than human meddling. If the progress of nature had that species going extinct, then it was never meant to survive in the first place.
And if BS's campaign requires a media blackout of actual news and mass censorship of truth and facts so that he has the advantage he needs in order to win, then his position was so weak that he has no shot to start with.
I mean, if HRC and her presidential bid was so fragile that BS saying she is unqualified tanked it... it doesn't make Bernie an evil bastard for saying it. It means she wasn't strong enough to win in the first place.