2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: ^^Fundraiser email created 6/4 for a "surprise" event on 6/6???^^ [View all]herding cats
(19,564 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 7, 2016, 07:48 PM - Edit history (1)
Which is when the media was expected to announce this. There's a huge victory party in Brooklyn, which was all a part of the plan, too. Instead they had to roll it out a day early because of the AP announcement.
Really, it's not anything nefarious. Of course they've been planning for this moment, it has been obvious for quite some time now that after her win tonight in New Jersey she'd have had it locked up. It just happened a bit earlier than they expected.
On edit: I just realized this was the AP's graphic. I was a graphic designer at a print publication (newspaper). This was a several years ago, but once it was all about beating the competition to the Internet post we did double graphics for political, and major sports events. Which equaled more work for this salaried person, but it's the standard.
In this case, I doubt there was even an order to make a Bernie graphic. Just a rush to be the first to break the Hillary wins news. Which was reckless, IMO. Yet, it is what it is.