Media Fails To Report That Hillary Clinton Is Crushing Every GOP Candidate In New Poll

The 2016 election season continues to heat up with most of the action on the Republican side of the field. The GOP Clown Car is filling up with with two new entries, Rick Santorum and George Pataki, bringing the official count to eight. It will be closer to fifteen before they are done.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is the only candidate that the press takes seriously. Never mind that Bernie Sanders is stirring up the passion of the party base and that Joe Biden, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Webb all have more experience that most of the GOP aspirants.

It is, therefore, interesting to see how the media is handling their coverage of Clinton. For the past several weeks they have said very little other than to hype false allegations about the Clinton Foundation raised in a book that is notable primarily for its abundance of errors. They also filled time with wild speculation about her emails, despite having no evidence of any wrongdoing. And when they weren’t mining those dry holes they were complaining about her preference for talking to voters over reporters. Can anyone blame her?

Today the media again displayed an uncontrollable compulsion to avoid any discourse of substance. A new poll was released by Quinnipiac that showed Clinton beating every Republican she was matched against. The margin of victory spread from four points (vs. Rand Paul) to eighteen points (vs. Donald Trump). All of these Clinton leads exceeded the poll’s margin of error.

Clinton Beats GOP

Clinton’s domination of the entire GOP field, however, was not particularly newsworthy to most of the media. Instead, they reported on the horse race between the Republicans that had five of them bunched up at the top with no clear leader. Somehow, that bit of vaguery was deemed a more important news item than Clinton’s clear cut clean sweep.

The Washington Post’s answer to this poll came in an editorial by conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin. Her article on Clinton’s polling success carried the headline “Hillary’s strategy isn’t working.” Of course, because besting every one of your challengers is a sure sign of a failing strategy to wingnuts like Rubin.

Instead of the candidate match-ups, Rubin focused on two other questions in the poll. First was Clinton’s favorability which registered only 45%. What Rubin left out is that Hillary’s 45% was higher than any of the Republicans. Secondly, Rubin brought up the question of trustworthiness, wherein the poll’s respondents gave Hillary a low 39%. Once again, Rubin neglected to mention that all but two Republicans (Huckabee and Paul) registered even lower. And for the record, Clinton also rated higher than any of the Republican on leadership and caring about people.

With the election over eighteen months away, there will be plenty of time for the press to hurl questions at Clinton. The problem is whether they will come up with any inquiries that have relevance to the country or will they keep embarrassing themselves with trivialities and spin? For example, yesterday Clinton made public statements in South Carolina that addressed serious issues like pay equality and helping the middle class. But all the media saw fit to report was their impression that she spoke with a southern accent [Note: She lived in Arkansas for more than fifteen years. Y’all think that doesn’t make a dent in yer speakin’ voice?]

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In the meantime, we can expect the press to continue to fish up sparkly nonsense in an attempt to turn the election into a tabloid melodrama that dispenses with any of those serious matters that only make people depressed and force them to think. And Clinton’s campaign strategy will fail her straight up into the White House while the media is still trying to parse an old sentence fragment into something scandalous.

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13 thoughts on “Media Fails To Report That Hillary Clinton Is Crushing Every GOP Candidate In New Poll

  1. Maybe it’s because no one wants to admit that the only one truly qualified for the office out of the lot of them is Hillary. Whether you like Hillary or not, there’s no one on the Rethuglican side that can challenge her without following the Fox Spews Paradigm(tm): (a) attack with both barrels, six machine guns, and a tank; (b) figure out if it makes sense later; (c) develop some kind of semi-logical support for same — the kind of support that only makes sense in that parallel universe the FoxPods live in on a daily basis; (d) have Sarah Palin misinterpret it for Hannity, Bozo, and the Lord of Limburger in her own inimitable style; and (e) convince themselves in short order that Obama masterminded all of it from Muslim Central and demand his impeachment. Again. Oh, and, of course, (f) BENGHAZI (the “f” stands for some four letter word that reflects precisely our opinion of Fox’s coverage — or, when pluralized, the name of the network at issue pronounced in an American accent).

  2. “…four points vs. Rand Paul…”
    That does not meet the definition of crushing your opponent. That puts Rand Paul easily within striking range.
    “…eighteen points vs. Donald Trump…”
    There isn’t a political analyst out there, liberal or conservative, who gives Donald Trump any chance of winning the nomination. Most of them think he won’t even run, as usual.
    It bears repeating that the race hasn’t even started yet.

  3. Well, if Bernie Sanders can’t ‘crush’ yet another Clinton, we all might as well elect another Bush.

    • I hope you’re being sarcastic. If you aren’t, may I ask if you’re in the habit of metaphorically cutting off your nose to spite your face?

  4. And yet, the mainstream media is soooooo liberal. If this is an example of liberal media, what’s the Fox News Channel definition of conservative media? Right: their channel of lies and alarmism.

  5. It seem to me that everyone seems to be missing the most important point. The news media in NOT in the business of informing people. NONE OF THEM. the news papers were closest back when they mattered at all. they were in the business of selling their papers. ALL lctronic media are in the business of selling advertising. Everything is measured on that basis. what does that fact have to do with this subjct? A race that is over before it really starts sells no advertising. The media are working feverishly to generate some kind of race, even if it is only in their minds.

    • It’s going to be armageddon for the far right fundies when they see just how badly they are going to be beaten. They believe their own lies and the media perpetuate them.

  6. What you fail to report is that Bernie Sanders is also ahead of every Republican candidate in most polls. Bernie Sanders is the one you’re going to be writing about when the Primaries start, not Hillary

  7. Finally somone is calling out the media. If these reporters were really reporters I am sure Hillary would talk with them, but why should she. The only person who has ever given her crdibility is Jonathan Capehart. Chris Mathews is somewhat fair. To me pudit is a dirty word. When they mention Hillary they always seem to snicker. I always thought when you were electing a President you were looking for the most qualified, but apparently that is not the case. These pundits on both sides cant understand why the middle class love her. They dont care how much money she makes because that means they too given the opportunity can do it. The Middle Class knows this and thet know nobody will work harder than Hillary for the American people.

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