We're basically always gonna be stuck with the election night narrative because the media has plenty of time to fill during election coverage and talks and talks and talks about the data in front of them.....and that's when virtually everyone is paying attention as well. It's assuredly below the radar of 99% of the population that Trump'…
We're basically always gonna be stuck with the election night narrative because the media has plenty of time to fill during election coverage and talks and talks and talks about the data in front of them.....and that's when virtually everyone is paying attention as well. It's assuredly below the radar of 99% of the population that Trump's "gigantic win" is down to 1.7% less than two weeks later, but unfortunately with the way the votes are counted, election night is always gonna look better for Republicans than it actually ends up being as days pass and more Democratic votes get counted.
I'll never forget how just before midnight on election night 2012 when Bob Schieffer was musing to his CBS News colleagues how it would be possible for Obama to interpret his governing mandate "having lost the popular vote" to Mitt Romney.
Another pet peeve: I do wish the news media would consistently use election maps where state sizes are adjusted according to population. Otherwise audiences easily get the bizarre idea that the USA is a Red country – or at least 80% Republican.
The Downballot gets this right! A very telling map at the top of their Tweet feed:
I watched CBS News this year, and they tilted their maps at an angle and used 3D models with vertical bars representing the population of counties. You'd see tall blue spikes surrounded by red.
Biden had a mandate from 51.3% of voting Americans. Trump does NOT have a mandate from a majority of voters. This should be underscored again and again by Democratic politicians, by pundits, and by the news media – and Trump and his nominated Cabinet members should be confronted and asked what compromises they will make to ensure support from a majority of Americans.
We're basically always gonna be stuck with the election night narrative because the media has plenty of time to fill during election coverage and talks and talks and talks about the data in front of them.....and that's when virtually everyone is paying attention as well. It's assuredly below the radar of 99% of the population that Trump's "gigantic win" is down to 1.7% less than two weeks later, but unfortunately with the way the votes are counted, election night is always gonna look better for Republicans than it actually ends up being as days pass and more Democratic votes get counted.
I'll never forget how just before midnight on election night 2012 when Bob Schieffer was musing to his CBS News colleagues how it would be possible for Obama to interpret his governing mandate "having lost the popular vote" to Mitt Romney.
Another pet peeve: I do wish the news media would consistently use election maps where state sizes are adjusted according to population. Otherwise audiences easily get the bizarre idea that the USA is a Red country – or at least 80% Republican.
The Downballot gets this right! A very telling map at the top of their Tweet feed:
https://nitter.poast.org/downballotnews
I watched CBS News this year, and they tilted their maps at an angle and used 3D models with vertical bars representing the population of counties. You'd see tall blue spikes surrounded by red.
Biden had a mandate from 51.3% of voting Americans. Trump does NOT have a mandate from a majority of voters. This should be underscored again and again by Democratic politicians, by pundits, and by the news media – and Trump and his nominated Cabinet members should be confronted and asked what compromises they will make to ensure support from a majority of Americans.