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“While it’s been portrayed as about 2020, I think the bigger reason they want the ballots is about 2026 and 2028.”
“The goal, really, was not to prove that Trump won, but it was to get on the news week after week and month after month…and just plant those seeds of doubt.”
Fox has decided to part with the equivalent of the gross domestic product of Samoa in order to keep its dirty laundry out of the public eye.
The main advantage in avoiding any in-person exit polling is lower cost, rather than any increase in quality.
“They knew where to look in all these election records to figure out how to debunk these small lies that become the big lies.”
The spate of new election-meddling laws proposed in Arizona suggests that looking away from Trumpists’ “audit” is not the answer.
“There’s a bit of a vacuum in government-run election processes that’s opaque, and allows the conspiracy theories to trickle in.”
Who’s speaking for the actual majority of US citizens who support a person’s right to determine whether and when to have a child?
The default reflex among corporate media, in step with the dominant US narrative, is to see cops and soldiers as good guys, and their presence as benign and reassuring.
Democrats celebrated dual Georgia Senate race victories this week, which gives them, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaker vote, a bare majority in the Senate. But not all Democrats are created equal, and the one-vote margin makes the politics of each individual in that majority more consequential. In 2020, several states witnessed competitive Democratic […]
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A FAIR analysis of the 2020 general election debates found stunning breaks from past practices combined with tried-and-true tropes of national US debates.
Missed Story: Latino Voting Surge Boosted Biden A common theme in post-election coverage was how well Donald Trump did with people of color, particularly Latinos. “How Democrats Missed Trump’s Appeal to Latino Voters” was one New York Times story (11/9/20); another (11/16/20) read, “Liberals Envisioned a Multiracial Coalition. Voters of Color Had Other Ideas.” While […]
The bottom line, obscured by demographic gee-whiz stories, is that Trump had a 15-point advantage among whites and a 46-point deficit with people of color.
Joe Biden hadn’t even been declared the victor of the 2020 election before establishment Democrats, in the face of poorer-than-expected results in House and Senate races, began pointing fingers at the left—with corporate media giving them a major assist.
NPR gave readers a variety of viewpoints, giving the readers the choice of which set of facts they want to accept as true.
in the past few days, it seems corporate media have decided to report on Trump’s attempts to subvert the election and overturn its results as a fact, not as a matter of opinion.
The fact that in a few places in Texas and Florida, the Latinx vote appeared to move toward the right hardly negates the fact that the overall Latinx vote grew tremendously, and those votes overall went by large margins to the Democrats.
“It’s the false balance that is putting us into a dangerous position, because you don’t want to give any sort of balance to the autocratic side here.”
For the New York Times, crying election fraud then staging a coup is bad, and just like what dictators do—unless it is the US making dubious claims of electoral fraud against official enemies, in which case it is an honorable practice.
