2016 Postmortem

wyldwolf

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23. As a writer for The Nation said ...

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 05:54 PM

Oct 2015

The answer is that no journalist worth his or her salt takes those focus groups or online polls seriously.

The former have a handful of people watching the back-and-forth with these little doozers that they can dial up or down, so they're artificially compelled to hang onto every word in a way that no normal person watching a debate ever does. The latter are meaningless.

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MEDIA WATCH: WHY IS MEDIA COVERING UP WHO WON DEMOCRATIC DEBATE, ACCORDING TO POLLS? [View all] AgingAmerican Oct 2015 OP

How about: irrelevance? brooklynite Oct 2015 #1

The OP is stating that she is in bed with bkkyosemite Oct 2015 #8

More like AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #14

Please proceed, governor. JaneyVee Oct 2015 #2

It's a conspiracy!!! n/t 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2015 #3

... AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #4

Because the media doesn't believe in fairytales and Internet polls. wyldwolf Oct 2015 #5

They don't believe in their own polls? AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #7

Not in any meaningful way wyldwolf Oct 2015 #9

... AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #12

Posting online poll results over and over... wyldwolf Oct 2015 #13

So every poll and every focus group is wrong AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #15

Nope wyldwolf Oct 2015 #16

So the fact she lost every poll and focus group AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #18

Online polls are wildly inaccurate wyldwolf Oct 2015 #20

Focus group results mirror the poll results AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #22

As a writer for The Nation said ... wyldwolf Oct 2015 #23

Thanks, I was wondering about how you guys would spin that one AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #26

It's fun watching The Nation and Salon get thrown under the bus wyldwolf Oct 2015 #28

Hers's some good ol' fashion fun for you AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #42

This message was self-deleted by its author AtomicKitten Oct 2015 #37

No, they believe in their own scientific polling mythology Oct 2015 #31

That doesn't explain the pattern that emerged AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #43

... DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #6

When a group has the same interests Fearless Oct 2015 #10

Booked Add Sales. All about the Dollars. Wellstone ruled Oct 2015 #11

+1. You don't bite the hand that pays you. n/t winter is coming Oct 2015 #25

K & R !!! WillyT Oct 2015 #17

Watch out for the workinclasszero Oct 2015 #19

Nothing to see here. Juicy_Bellows Oct 2015 #21

As the party shifts to the right AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #24

So very true. I wish it weren't. Juicy_Bellows Oct 2015 #27

" This sort of thing would have been unthinkable in the Democratic party not long ago." Go Vols Oct 2015 #29

Honesty is apparently being redefined mythology Oct 2015 #32

CNN ignored their own poll results and declared her the winner AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #33

The media have received their marching orders hifiguy Oct 2015 #30

They both did excellent. Ds are fortunate to have such non divisive, respectful candidates Sunlei Oct 2015 #34

It's funny to see people who have been squawking about the VRWC and the complicit media.. frylock Oct 2015 #35

"footage not shown on the major networks" panader0 Oct 2015 #36

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #38

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #39

None of the polls on this subject show her winning or even close AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #40

Media Equalizer said it screenshotted comments on CNN’s Facebook and saw some had since disappeared. kenn3d Oct 2015 #41