2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Rigged race means Hillary takes more delegates in Bernie’s Wyoming win [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)This stuff is new. The norm would be to call the .02 victory "a virtual tie", and the 56 to 44 victory would have been called a "very decisive victory", the level of praise the next step from "landslide" which would have needed maybe a point or two for it to be refereed to as such, but most assuredly not a tie. There would also have been some surprised and in depth discussion by the TV anchor about how strange the way the delegates must be awarded for them to share equally the delegate count, after such a decisive victory, likely even a guest familiar with the system to embarrassingly explain it.
They are changing the game now, because the game is changing to a rigged one and they need a new and very selectively used narrative to make it less obvious.Then again what is new could be said to simply be a resurgence of something much older.