Forbes: Bernie Rising, Hillary Fading: How Bernie Sanders Is Winning the Media War

[portlander23]

Bernie Rising, Hillary Fading: How Bernie Sanders Is Winning the Media War

The timeline above shows the percentage of all mentions of any Democratic candidate from January 1, 2015 to present on national television networks Aljazeera America, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Comedy Central, FOX Business, FOX News, LinkTV, and MSNBC that were of each candidate.

Over the last 30 days Sanders accounts for 24.4% of all Democratic mentions versus 2.3% for Martin O’Malley, 0.3% for Jim Webb, and 0.2% for Lincoln Chafee. Over the last 7 days Sanders has enjoyed a surge in coverage, reaching 35.9% of Democratic mentions, while Martin O’Malley has fallen to just 0.9%, Jim Webb to 0.2% and Lincoln Chafee to just 0.1%.

Fast forwarding a month to September 13th, “mail” and “server” are still among the words most closely associated with Clinton’s candidacy, suggesting she is having difficulty shaking the issue. On the other hand, Sanders’ word cloud shows coverage of the Senator refocusing to emphasize Sanders himself and his policies rather than treating him merely as a foil – the prominent mention of “poll” also reflects his continued rise in national polls.

[peacebird]

1. I am seeing 2008 all over again! Good! We need Bernie!

[SoapBox]

6. Agreed.

Whatever her campaign is doing (or is that not doing), I hope they keep it up.

Actually it's also arrogant...they must be so in the Entrentched Establishment Bubble, that they still think that she's Ms. Inevitable.

She's in for one big fat surprise.

[elana i am]

2. interesting

you know what i would have expected to see on bernie sanders' word cloud big and blatant? socialist.

i'm sure it's there, but it's no sticking out.

[LoveIsNow]

5. Cannot find it for the life of me.

I found electability. Not socialist

[Fred Sanders]

3. Because there are lots of "email mentions" means "Clinton is not shaking the issue"...whatever

that means...All righty then, so the conclusion is.... clearly Clinton is "fading"??...fading away from the smear, maybe!

This is used to be called tea leaf reading, now it is called cloud reading.

[portlander23]

4. Fairness

In all fairness to Mrs. Clinton, this is a study of media mentions. The only conclusion you can draw here is that the media won't give up the issue.

Also, I've never been a fan of word clouds.

[mountain grammy]

7. We need debates!

[zentrum]

8. ^This^

[tk2kewl]

9. what? counting words on the teevee isn't good enough?