There's an excellent article up at the Huffington Post right now under the same title I've utilized that I haven’t seen mentioned here. Its author goes into specific detail, using undeniable facts to back up his points, about how the media & Team Clinton have been playing this election cycle:
Clinton supporters and many self-professed “neutral” journalists sagely inform the rest of us that this anger [with the media's coverage] is little more than sour grapes or denial-stage grief; it’s the numbers that matter — they say — and if only Sanders supporters cared about hard data in the same way that Clinton supporters and (say) “neutral” bloggers for The Washington Post do, or even the editors at The New York Times, everyone would just calm down and accept the incipient inevitability of the ugliest and least substantive general-election campaign in the history of the United States: Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton.
The reality?
What Sanders supporters are angry about is hard data.
And not just any hard data, but hard data supplied by irrefutably objective sources and challenged as to its validity by absolutely no one.
Hard data so objective and undeniably accurate that its absence in public discussion of the presidential election is not just puzzling or downright bizarre but absolutely infuriating.
He goes on to itemize 12 excellent and completely valid reasons for Bernie supporters to be calling Foul. Here’s just one of them:
8. 2,383.
That’s the number of delegates Hillary Clinton needs to reach to secure the Democratic nomination without super-delegates. Nate Silver — the nation’s top polling expert — says it is “very possible” she won’t get to that number, which means Bernie Sanders will be in Philadelphia this summer trying to make his case to super-delegates that he’s more electable than Hillary.
I encourage you to go read the whole piece. Well worth the read, and not to be missed in getting the bigger picture of this year's round of political theatre.
And on Team Bernie rolls to capture Washington, Hawaii, Alaska…..