4) But Trump is up 3 in MO and 2 in AZ. But @AP puts those into the win column for Trump.
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5) I don't know anything about polls. I'm not a presidential political scientist. But I can read numbers and assess journalism.
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6) Any map that puts Clinton at 269 - DRAMATICALLY - 1 below the clinching number, is a suspect map.
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7) To me, this is not "vast right wing conspiracy" journalism (h/t
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8) If you take a 4 pt lead for Clinton and turn it gray for tossup, and a 2 pt lead for Trump and turn it red, your methodology is suspect.
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It's an interactive tool for fiddling with electoral maps. Many pubs do similar. I don't see anything nefarious about it at all
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Certainly using it as evidence that the AP is somehow going easy on Trump, as Kendzior does, is completely ridiculous.
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that is not my point. It's not about going easy, but about preserving horse race discourse.
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The only reason that Blue Nation Review contributor Kendzior took note of this is because she's on a crusade against the AP
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On an ancillary note, once you start writing for an explicitly propagandistic site, you forfeit a lot of credibility.
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all writers make their choices about whether to serve as a partisan voice or preserve myth of objectivity.
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There's a big difference between clinging to "objectivity" (I certainly don't urge that) and working for a propaganda organ.
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