I think this tweet says more about media bias than Dave Weigel realized

From the Washington Post's Dave Weigel, whose paper has been more than a little critical of Joe Biden:


https://twitterthe.com/daveweigel/status/1166776433953443840

So on the one side you have the Washington media elite, whose candidate preferences run the (narrow leftwing) gamut frm Warren to Sanders.

And on the other side, you have the "Iowans et al" and their misinformed "pundit-think" (thinking for themselves ratber than letting the media pundits do it for them) who "are traumatized by 2016 and willing to settle for candidate they think Republicans would be comfortable with."

Meaning Biden.

I can't begin to count how often I've seen pundits and reporters complain that voters are "playing pundit" and should NOT, by their misinformed selves, attempt to figure out who's electable. That's seen as usurping a privilege pundits believe they have a monopoly on.

But this is the first time I've seen this elite-vs-ordinary-voters attitude expressed so clearly, with Warren and Sanders named as the beneficiaries of this bias, and Biden not named but clearly identified as the one those poor pitiful "traumatized" voters prefer.