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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI kind of wish the media had waited until Tuesday night
This is not helpful.
But Hillary didn't declare herself the winner. The media did.
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I kind of wish the media had waited until Tuesday night (Original Post)
bluestateguy
Jun 2016
OP
We forget that in 2000 and in 2004 Gore and Kerry were declared the nominee
question everything
Jun 2016
#6
onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. Reporters on MSNBC are fairly pissed at NBC. nt
democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)2. I can understand that
I vaguely remember the media doing something similar in 2008 and I remember being pissed about it (as an Obama supporter).
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)3. Yup.
Count me as annoyed.
Raster
(20,998 posts)4. PUH-LEEZE, I don't believe for one fucking minute that Camp Clinton...
...did not know what AP/MSNBC were about to do.
JSup
(740 posts)5. The 'news'...
....just likes to suck the fun out of everything.
question everything
(47,476 posts)6. We forget that in 2000 and in 2004 Gore and Kerry were declared the nominee
well ahead during the race.
I remember thinking, in 2008, that this was the first time when 'late voting" states were actually in the game.