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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 12:07 PM Jun 2017

The media's framing of the Georgia election


As if this was a devastating "loss" for Democrats.

A seat not held by a Democrat for what...40 years?
A seat that hemorrhaged Repub votes in a district that should not have EVER been this close.

Truly Orwellian.
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The media's framing of the Georgia election (Original Post) SHRED Jun 2017 OP
Yes. Republican wins in Georgia. yallerdawg Jun 2017 #1
I was gagging on my lunch at the Varsity in ATL in the 'CNN Room' They were like WHAT NOW? CurtEastPoint Jun 2017 #2
Yep. GoCubsGo Jun 2017 #3
Triumph for Trump is what I heard on abc this morning. Lars39 Jun 2017 #4
That same so-called "Liberal" media ... LenaBaby61 Jun 2017 #5
I'm a fellow Californian SHRED Jun 2017 #6
He's definitely ... LenaBaby61 Jun 2017 #7

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. Yes. Republican wins in Georgia.
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 12:13 PM
Jun 2017

A real 'dog bites man' story if I ever saw one.

Of course, there would have been a story if a freakin' miracle had happened!

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
3. Yep.
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 12:18 PM
Jun 2017

And, it's sad to see so many here buying into that framing. It's not the Democrats who "need to do some soul-searching," as at least one mouthpiece put it this morning. It's the republicans who should be shitting their pants right now. The Dems just need to work on their strategy a bit more--and raise hell regarding cross-check and other voter suppression issues.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
5. That same so-called "Liberal" media ...
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 12:48 PM
Jun 2017

Gave that giant turd tRumputin $2 BILLION in free air time as well during the election season, and most in that same "Liberal" media never fact-checked all of the lies he told during the GE. Many still don't check his lies NOW.

Secondly, THEY built up a race in a district that has gone RED since the 1970's, IS drawn +9 for thuglicans, and contains Deeply red Cobb County. So, after I saw those statics early on through my own checking, I knew it would ALWAYS be a tough lift for Ossoff, who was pretty lucky in fact to have gotten to within 2-3% points of that crook Handle.

I live in the greater Los Angeles County area, and if that turd were to have won HERE during the 2016 GE, that would have been a devastating loss for whomever he ran against him, because where I live is DEEP Blue, in fact we've THANKFULLY have a Super-majority here for a while now, so thuglicans have been rendered null and void essentially, and our state has rebounded from Ahnold for the most part without too much thuglican input

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