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The media's Trump reckoning: 'Everyone was wrong': 'Everyone was wrong'
Politico ^ | March 1, 2016 | Hadas Gold

Posted on 03/01/2016 3:11:41 PM PST by monkapotamus

Those two mandarins weren't alone in dismissing Trump's chances. Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza wrote in July that "Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016." And numbers guru Nate Silver told readers as recently as November to "stop freaking out" about Trump's poll numbers...

Now all these journalists, and more, are coming to grips with their mistaken assessments. And some, too, are freaking out..

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; hadasgold; newyork; politico; trump
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1 posted on 03/01/2016 3:11:41 PM PST by monkapotamus
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its gonna happen!


2 posted on 03/01/2016 3:13:18 PM PST by drewh
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There were no ‘mistaken assessments’ - with their attacks the media CREATED Trump.


3 posted on 03/01/2016 3:13:22 PM PST by skeeter
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4 posted on 03/01/2016 3:13:40 PM PST by Bobalu (I'm spitting on my hands, and hoisting the black flag!)
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To: monkapotamus

Stinks to be all of you snooty know-it-alls, doesn’t it? Those “Political Science PHDs all have everything right, except reality. Har Har.


5 posted on 03/01/2016 3:13:59 PM PST by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: monkapotamus

Theyre either going full Klan, full Hitler, or full retard.


6 posted on 03/01/2016 3:14:11 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative
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7 posted on 03/01/2016 3:16:20 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (MY CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO: More Individual Liberty. Less Government Control.)
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To: monkapotamus

I hope they choke on it


8 posted on 03/01/2016 3:16:20 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Shady

Piled Higher and Deeper, that’s all “PhD” really amounts to these days and that’s all it’s amounted to for decades.


9 posted on 03/01/2016 3:17:52 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Shady

Did you mean......Hair, Hair?


10 posted on 03/01/2016 3:17:53 PM PST by Toespi
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11 posted on 03/01/2016 3:18:44 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Yuge 2016)
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To: drewh

great pic, just as fictional as most of djt’s great works and great big great whatever... (trump mortgage, trump steaks, trump shuttle, USFL, Trump Taj )

I hope we can survive this Jacksonian moment as a nation.


12 posted on 03/01/2016 3:19:03 PM PST by Bidimus1
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That pic wins the Internet today.

The minigun has a bayonet.

Awesome.


13 posted on 03/01/2016 3:19:07 PM PST by Toliph
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To: drewh

Does anybody remember the Fox news experts playing candidate casino? They bet all of their money on Jeb Bush and Scott Walker.


14 posted on 03/01/2016 3:19:29 PM PST by forgotten man
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Politico's reporters are decrying the "ugliness" of the Trump campaign.

Riiiighht.

These godless "reporters" never noticed the ugliness of their man, Barry Hussein Barack Soetoro Obama.

They never felt the need to decry the "ugliness" of when Obama mocked Chrisitans and lectured them at 3 National Prayer Breakfasts, stirred up racial hatred, insulted Israel, trashed our allies, made racist remarks against whites, lied repeatedly, dropped the charges against Black Panthers who intimidated voters, decimated our military, made a mockery of the Constitution, acted with lawlessness, weaponized the IRS against innocent Americans, and destroyed our borders.

15 posted on 03/01/2016 3:19:49 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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What’s funny is other than Wallace, they’re all still in denial. From “it’ll never happen” to “he’s just a reality tv star” and “Americans are stupid.” These guys are going to have a loooong eight years.


16 posted on 03/01/2016 3:20:51 PM PST by frankenMonkey
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The progression of Trump detractors...

1. I just don’t like him
2. I really really don’t like him
3. I’ll post an article once in a while because I don’t like him
4. I’m up to five articles a day now, because I don’t like him
5. I find myself going to the W.P., the N.Y.T.s and many other Leftist places now to post 25 negative articles about him each day
6. I often post my articles, and then repost other people’s negative articles
7. I’m spending 19 hours a day now posting ever scrap about Trump I can find
8. My guy was out weeks ago, but I’m still anti-Trump. I’ll do this for months more
9. Well, my guy got crushed today. There’s no way in hell, but I will destroy Trump
10. Trump now has the states and delegates to win the nomination. I’m not stopping. I hate Trump.
11. The Convention was my last hope. They tried, but Trump is the nominee. God how I hate him.
12. Hillary Clinton is going down. I’ve been posting negative things about Trump every day, but it isn’t helping
13. Trump was elected president last night. The nation is totally lost. All those idiots out there. I’m going to trash Trump until the day I die.
14. Trump did some things today I have wanted done for decades. It’s getting harder to find negative articles. The NYT and the WP are always a help...
15. Months have gone by. Trump has done a lot of good, but I hate him more every day. I still find negative articles and I post them.
16. Four years in and Trump did a surprisingly large number of things he said he would. I haven’t posted one favorable article, but there were many.
17. Trump won his second term. The nation can’t survive, even thought it is a lot better than when he took over. I only have 17 negative articles today. Ten were from the WP and four from the NYTs.
18. Eight years went quick. Trump did an amazing job in his eight years. I’m down to only 13 negative articles about him each day.
19. It has been a year since Trump left office. I am mellowing. I’m only posting 5-7 negative articles about him each day.
20. My kids came home for spring break today. I was telling them what the campaign for Trump was like in the early days, us working so hard to get him elected.
21. Okay, they’ll never know...


17 posted on 03/01/2016 3:24:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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Media is collectively experiencing their Pauline Kael moment


18 posted on 03/01/2016 3:25:59 PM PST by GWB00 (Barbara Streisand barely made it out of high school.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Looks to me like their going full throttle for all 3!!!!


19 posted on 03/01/2016 3:26:46 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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They went all three and still lost......


20 posted on 03/01/2016 3:30:18 PM PST by arl295
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