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Showing Original Post only (View all)AP’s Premature Call for Clinton Does Disservice to Democracy [View all]
http://fair.org/home/action-alert-aps-premature-call-for-clinton-does-disservice-to-democracy/Just leaving this here for the moment, what a weird call on the eve of the California primary.
"The Associated Press (6/6/16) has unilaterally declared Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Partys presumptive nominee for president, based on the news agencys own polling of unelected superdelegates.
Superdelegateswho have a role in the Democratic nominating process based on their institutional positions rather than being chosen by votersdo not vote until the Democratic National Convention, to be held on July 25. They can declare their intention to vote for one candidate or another, just as voters can tell pollsters who they intend to vote for before Election Day, but like voters they can (and do) change their mind at any time before the actual voting. Media do not generally call elections weeks before the actual voting based on voters intentions.
The timing of APs announcementon the eve of primaries in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana and South Dakota, and caucuses in North Dakotaraises concerns of voter suppression, intentional or not. The six states choose a total of 806 delegates on June 7, making it the second-biggest day in the Democratic primary calendar (after Super Tuesday, March 1, when 865 delegates were at stake)...
...Compounding the damage done by APs premature call were other major news outlets that joined the rush to declare the nominating process over. NBC News (6/6/16) came out with Clinton Hits Magic Number of Delegates to Clinch Nomination. Hillary Clinton Clinches Democratic Presidential Nomination, was CNNs headline (6/6/16); an onscreen graphic reported that Hillary Clinton Earns Enough Delegates to Win Democratic Nomination, an odd choice of verb to describe the inclinations of unelected delegates..."
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"[The AP] is supposed to report the news, not cook it in a kitchen & serve it up." @Dennis_Kucinich
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#1
I supported Kucinich last time, Olbermann had Edwards on several times ...
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#9
Yes and even before that I would hear from voters while phonebanking that Sanders had already lost
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#5
It's a shabby thing to do. I can remember when Mr. Shraby and I were young voters and
shraby
Jun 2016
#4
Very true, why vote, the establishment politicians and media have selected a candidate...
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#7
That establishment media wanted Hillary, not Bernie, as the nominee could not have been more obvious
merrily
Jun 2016
#8
There is hope, many millennials get their news from online sources which is more scattered ...
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#13
I guess we can tweet more. But, jaysus, with all the people getting paid for news stories,
merrily
Jun 2016
#14
I don't mean tweets that are the equivalent of body noises. I mean tweets to get
merrily
Jun 2016
#16
I knew what you meant, at least I thought I did :) All for the productive, news/heads up ...
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#17
We'll never really know, stories of irregularities will sink, democracy took flight awhile ago ...
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#19