Back in 2020 I saw a lot of issues with how the election was being covered. It vastly overestimated Trump and the “enthusiasm gap”, their constant reliance on “anonymous democratic sources”, and an overall ambivalence towards Biden due to his inability to garner huge ratings because of how “unentertaining” he is. In 2021 and 2022 they foretold, day after day of a colossal red wave that would sweep over Washington, reinventing American politics on the side of the MAGA movement, leaving the red carpet for Trump returning in 2025 like Napoleon in Southern France in 1815 and thoroughly crushing the struggling Democrats. There was a brief moment of sanity post-dobbs but then they went back on their poll-ium, braindead punditry,ignorance of issues affecting women’s lives, and the general underestimating of our country. After all, what does Joe six pack down at the diner care about American Democracy? They were corrected on election day. Well since then they haven’t learned A THING.
Sniffing mountains of pollium, they have reverted to alternate reality centered on entertaining horse-race coverage, eye-catching headlines and quotes, and conversations with 3 or 4 people who probably were going to Trump anyway but shown as a general switch to him. I HAVE HAD IT!!!!! For the next 5 months, they will tell you about how stupid we are, how Trump is such a strong sexy man who sooooooooo many Americans believe is their savior. They’ll go by these outdated polls that come straight out of an industry on the brink of collapse, because god forbid they go by how people have actually voted. MSNBC’s major shows are traditionally Liberal, but Morning Joe often leans into this mantra to get a little bit more ratings and attention, and panic!!!! Come the afternoon on MSNBC and CNN, its anything for views, same goes for the Sunday shows. We are watching an industry in crisis. Same goes for publications! NYT and WaPo are decaying like a corpse dumped in a river, The Hill is virulently anti-Biden since he first announced in 2019, and Politico is run by a German right-winger who wanted executives to pray for Trump to be re-elected in 2020, and now probably is doing the same, shown in a story about Trump’s “massive” cash advantage over Biden posted soon after that poll from Fox News. I swear to God, Trump could be 54 points down and Politico would say he’s surging and dynamic. It’s just like the 2020 primary and 2022 midterms.
One more thing; this election won’t be that close. The media talks about the race like its Bush v. Gore on steriods, but this is all based on polls, and recent trends and actual votes have shown that Biden WILL win the key states and maybe more, despite what the smooth-brained nitwits at the eCONomist say in their “forecast” going off of results solely from 4 years prior, and ignoring the massive unpopularity of MAGA extremism, christian nationalism, abortion bans, and January 6th/attacks on Democracy. Not gonna lie, surviving THIS seems like the real test of this election. Spend your time having fun, spending time with loved ones, and also doing valuable things for the Democrats, that counts light years more than what some pundit who lives in a fancy NYC loft and dines at high-end restaurants says about the election.