Read @ap's reasoning for calling it for Clinton. It sounds an awful lot like... reporting. https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-hillary-clinton …
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Replying to @KevinBuist
But what's the point? What possible use to society is presumptive today over pledged tomorrow?
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Replying to @emptywheel
News is reported as soon as you have it. Why wait?
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Replying to @KevinBuist
Why invest the time of 4 journos to go get this rather than report something that matters to society?
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Replying to @emptywheel @KevinBuist
I get that the horse race shit is just that. But is the AP not going to cover every part of the election?
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Replying to @nickrmanes
All the more so bc AP did work they had no need to do, bc they knew numbers would be in tomorrow. Waste of resources
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Replying to @emptywheel @KevinBuist
like, they weren't going to say, "get off the horse race and go do real reporting." Maybe nice if they did.
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Replying to @nickrmanes
Maybe instead they can go report on down-ticket races that they just materially affected?
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Replying to @emptywheel @KevinBuist
that's a fair point I hadn't thought of. Turnout just got way lighter for all of CA's other shit.
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Yup. Pretty important in top two primaries. Which is why both Hillary & Bernie trying to put this back in bottle. @KevinBuist
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