For Clinton Supporters: What can be done about media selectively ignoring polls?

[youceyec]

Both Huffpollster and RealClearPolitics have thus fast ignored this very recent poll:

http://maristpoll.marist.edu/914-decision-2016-clinton-leads-gop-rivals-bush-most-competitive-against-clinton/

It shows Clinton beating all GOP contenders, some by double digits.

everything about the methodology is identical to the NBC/Marist poll from Sept. 6. The more recent one was paid by MSNBC and Telemundo, no other difference.

Marist is highly respected and reliable, yet its being ignored. Other than passing references on Rachel Maddow, nothing.

ive tweeted

https://twitter.com/pollsterpolls?lang=en

https://twitter.com/RealClearNews?lang=en

to no avail

[underthematrix]

1. knowlegde is the great innoculant against ignorance

HRC people are not worried about polls because at this time, they are winning the superdelegate game. Nominations are determined by delegate count. Superdelegates are the powerbrokers of the party machine.

That may all change if Biden gets in.

[McCamy Taylor]

2. They are trying to drum up more interest in the election. Actually good for Clinton.

Her supporters love her. If they think she is being threatened, they will rally. If not for all the Other Candidate people disrespecting her right now at DU, her own folks probably wouldn't even be bothering to talk about her. They need to talk about her. They need to spell out exactly why they want her to become the next president.

Clinton has been the most respected woman in this country 17 times. That is a record. She is basically unbeatable--unless we get lazy.

[SheilaT]

3. No matter where you are on the who you support spectrum,

keep in mind that it is in the media's best interest to keep the horse race analogy going as long as possible. Which is why they are absolutely orgasmic over the Republican side, because they have so very many candidates, that the "horse race" on that side can go on for a very long time.

For them, the down side of Hillary the Inevitable was that there was no story there. Now, there's a story. Bernie. O'Malley. Biden. Put aside however you personally feel about who should be nominated and elected, ignore your own take on who is the best candidate. The media needs some kind of story to cover. They honestly don't care who really is the best candidate or who would actually make the best President. Were Hillary to have coasted to the Democratic nomination with absolutely no challenge, they'd have been so bored they'd have been throwing spitballs at her themselves. Now, things are interesting.

Please do not take any of the above comments on my part as any actual opinion about Hillary. I'm only trying to get you to see how the MSM approach things. Not that I'm an expert in this field. Just my observations.

In the best of all possible worlds (so far as the MSM is concerned) Hillary and at least one other Democratic candidate will battle it out until more or less the last minute. Which is exactly what happened in 2008. What a story! Who actually got the nomination may matter to you, but it didn't matter at all to the story line.