2016 USA Presidential election thread II: And. Here. We. Go!

[kuronosan]

So basically it would allow electors to pick the popular candidate if they choose.

So not really different at all.

[Niiro]

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Electors do not and never have voted for whoever they wanted, of the handful that have ever voted out of line none had any chance of effecting the actual results and were usually done as a form of protest.

The compact would mean that the electors from the party that won the national popular vote would be sent rather than the electors from the party that won the state popular vote.

[Salodin]

There's a fee, and stigma, associated with an elector not picking the candidate the voting base in their state chose isn't there? This would alleviate that.

[ringthree]

So basically it would allow electors to pick the popular candidate if they choose.

So not really different at all.

It's completely different.

[archibaldcrane]

The party that won the national popular vote would be picking the electors, as opposed to the party that won the state vote. That's a huge difference.

[Olo401]

http://images.dailykos.com/images/34...01-11color.png

[Fiye]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.5756471eb29c

The review will examine broad allegations of misconduct involving the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email practices and the bureau’s controversial decision shortly before the election to announce that the probe had resumed.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.

[Olo401]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.5756471eb29c

You have to wonder how much can be done in the next 8 days, and whether there will be any follow-up at all.

[Day]

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/819605060372021248

spicy for sure

[Mertron]

well, it would take some serious lawyering to prove they didnt violate the hatch act

[Aerin]

Came across this and found it interesting. I'm sure some will laugh at The Washington Post or The New York Times being in the minimal bias column.

[Ksandra]

A friend linked that a month or so ago and I feel it's got a few things wrong.

I think huffpo has moved itself much further left, and I think even Occupy D should be in the conspiracy theory section. I think MSN should be parallel to Fox. I feel there is something wrong with lumping CNN with USA Today.

[Andalusian girls]

Came across this and found it interesting. I'm sure some will laugh at The Washington Post or The New York Times being in the minimal bias column.

the same New York Times that gave moveon.org a large and illegal discount to run the full-page 'General Betray Us' ad because they didn't like the idea that Bush was turning the Iraq War around right

and though they be outnumbered WaPo at least carries the two leading conservative columnists in the country in Krauthammer and Will, tellingly there is no such counterbalance at the NYT. and fully agree with K that MSNBC and HuffPo being placed as high quality and only marginally liberal betrays the biases of the illustrator.

[Aerin]

Agreed on the above points. My wording was poor, I include myself in those that laugh at the NYT having minimal bias

[Day]

yeah lmao move the whole axis a whole column to the right and be a bit more realistic

[Byrthnoth]

I'd make minor adjustments, but it seems pretty accurate overall to me, in terms of articles.
* I'd put Mother Jones way out down in the lower left too.
* I'd lower Fox news down the Y axis towards Basic AF or split it between Fox News Latino/Local and Fox Newstainment. Some people at Fox do good work, but not any of their TV personalities.
* I'd put NYT about equal to BBC/NPR and shift it a little left.
* I'd move NBC/ABC down below Reuters.
* Bloomberg kind of skews in every direction at once, so I guess I'd put it up top as Analytical/Mainstream

[Twilight Sky]

I just use CNN..though I miss how they used to talk about things around the world. Now its just Trump Trump Trump Trump.

[Byrthnoth]

Al Jazeera America was in the BBC/NPR cluster. Actually, Fox News Latino is dead too (RIP).

Fox Newstainment would be down with The Blaze (not that surprisingly, because Glenn Beck used to be Fox and now is The Blaze).
Fox Latino/Local would have been half a column left of where they had Fox News (Skews Conservative/Meets High Standards)

[Fiye]

I miss AJ America

[Day]

Neil Cavuto, Shep Smith and Bret Baeir actually do a pretty good job on Fox. The rest I would put under newstainment for sure, but CNN/MSNBC has their fair share of that too. Hannity is 100% trash idk how he has a slot still.

I just follow almost all of those publications (except the fringe stuff) on Twitter and try to sort through the bias the best I can. I like WSJ/Reuters pretty good, I don't see a lot of painfully obvious bias there. That image has "The Hill" waaaay too far right, I never see anything but left leaning headlines come through my feed from them.