One Month Since Obama Won Texas: Still Waiting for Media to Acknowledge Victory
It's now a week since we have had confirmed what alert observers knew on March 4.
It is now over one month since Obama won the Texas Democratic Party delegate allocation process.
It is now over one month since voters voted in primary elections and caucuses.
It is now over one month since the mass media mistakenly reported that Clinton "won" Texas.
It is now over one month since news media started misleadingly and routinely referring to the Clinton primary victory in Texas, without even mentioning the Obama caucus victory in Texas, or the combined Obama victory in the delegate allocation process.
It is now over one month during which I haven't heard the Obama campaign point this out very much or very often.
It is now a week since any doubt about the outcome has been resolved in Democratic county conventions.
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What if you had a victory and nobody came?
What if a victory fell in a forest and nobody heard?
What if you had a victory but it didn't fit the narrative?
What if national reporters were too lazy to report the actual election results?
What if national news media were embarrassed to admit they hadn't understood the process they were reporting on?
What if they'd rather accept one campaign's spin about an election than add up the actual numbers?
What if the idea that an African American man could win Texas is so strange to the media that they can't wrap their head around it to report it? (A white woman sure... Ann Richards, Molly Ivins... we all know Texas loves a strong woman... so a Hillary Clinton victory fits the only possible narrative we have of Texas.)
Obama won Texas. The media won't report it. Weird stuff.
(Yes, there could be efforts to change this outcome until the Democratic state convention circa June 6-7, but it is unlikely that Obama supporters will lose interest between now and then and be forced to concede delegates and anyway is that really an excuse not to report the delegate victory a month ago... and certainly now?)
Obama picked up seven of nine outstanding delegates, giving him a total of 99 Texas delegates to the party’s national convention this summer. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the other two, giving her a total of 94 Texas delegates, according to an analysis of returns by The Associated Press.
It is now over one month since Obama won the Texas Democratic Party delegate allocation process.
It is now over one month since voters voted in primary elections and caucuses.
It is now over one month since the mass media mistakenly reported that Clinton "won" Texas.
It is now over one month since news media started misleadingly and routinely referring to the Clinton primary victory in Texas, without even mentioning the Obama caucus victory in Texas, or the combined Obama victory in the delegate allocation process.
It is now over one month during which I haven't heard the Obama campaign point this out very much or very often.
It is now a week since any doubt about the outcome has been resolved in Democratic county conventions.
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What if you had a victory and nobody came?
What if a victory fell in a forest and nobody heard?
What if you had a victory but it didn't fit the narrative?
What if national reporters were too lazy to report the actual election results?
What if national news media were embarrassed to admit they hadn't understood the process they were reporting on?
What if they'd rather accept one campaign's spin about an election than add up the actual numbers?
What if the idea that an African American man could win Texas is so strange to the media that they can't wrap their head around it to report it? (A white woman sure... Ann Richards, Molly Ivins... we all know Texas loves a strong woman... so a Hillary Clinton victory fits the only possible narrative we have of Texas.)
Obama won Texas. The media won't report it. Weird stuff.
(Yes, there could be efforts to change this outcome until the Democratic state convention circa June 6-7, but it is unlikely that Obama supporters will lose interest between now and then and be forced to concede delegates and anyway is that really an excuse not to report the delegate victory a month ago... and certainly now?)
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Um, Mike,
I'd like to point out that you link to an article about Obama's Texas victory from Fox News.
I'd also like to point out that the article, as mentioned in your post, was from the Associated Press.
It pains me greatly to also have to point out that Fox News and the Associated Press are both members of the Media.
While it's true that this empirical research was conducted solely by clicking the link in your post above, I suspect that additional research would turn up more coverage of Obama's Texas victory. At the very least, I suspect other media outlets that subscribe to the AP probably printed the same story.
April 7, 2008 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, Fox news is reporting the AP, a legitimate news source, and the point was kinda... even Fox news acknowledges this...
...and in spite of that, nobody puts out a counter-narrative that reverses the one established following the primary.
But you are right the AP and Fox news have got it right. What they have wrong is how they interpret and present the facts.
And their numbers tell the same story as others, eg. http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/31/105552/461
April 7, 2008 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wrote to CNN's John Roberts a few days ago after he said on American Morning that Hillary had won Texas. He replied: "CNN declared Hillary Clinton the winner in the Texas primary. My comments reflected that decision."
I wrote back: "John, I had no idea CNN was in charge. I thought it was up to the voters to decide these things. My bad."
April 7, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
did john roberts really say that? wow...that reflects the problem in the media...never ever admit when you get something wrong.
April 7, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm still waiting for Hillary to drop out since she needed "both Ohio and Texas".
She lost Texas...why is she still in this thing?
April 7, 2008 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink