Thought on politics and the media
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Regarding the media coverage of the election: I think that it’s too easy to lump one large group of people together and say they’ll do the same. We’ve seen polls be very wrong in these primaries, and it might be because of samples taken in the polls, or something totally different.
But there is also something in the anticipation that all female democrats would vote/caucus for Hillary and all African-Americans would vote/caucus for Obama… Men don’t necessarily vote the same way because they’re men, and people of European descent don’t vote the same way because they come from the same place - so why would women, African-Americans, or Latin-Americans do it?
Certainly, there might be candidates who appeal to the majority in any group - but probably not to the degree that the media like to portray. Discussing the results is another thing altogether. Then you might come dragging with the actual percentages of who voted what.
Is there something about voters’ expectation involved in it somehow, that the media has to tell people how they should vote based on gender, race or religion?