Monday, October 10, 2016

Oct 10 electoral poll critique

10/10/16
New York Times
The polls are not leading news coverage this week as the second presidential debate was Sunday 10/9/16. Most all of the election coverage is centered on the debate and the absurd things Trump has said. A very small article weighed in on the difference of Trump’s sexist remarks and the fact that a woman is running for president.
“What we saw in the second debate”
Polls -                  Clinton: 45%           Trump: 40%

Headliner: “Paul Ryan Won’t Defend Donald Trump, Upsetting Trump and G.O.P. Hard-Liners” by Alexander Burns and Johnathon Martin

Same information on standards.

Real Clear Politics

Polls are still a sidebar on the far right hand side, at the very top of the page.

Electoral map still in the middle of the page.

Polls are not leading news coverage.

The second debate is and most of the articles are about Trump, his nasty comments, and how he has turned the election to a war on gender. Also many articles on the release of the “Trump tape”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/is-trump-a-sufferable-evil/article/2004796

“Is Trump a sufferable evil?” by William Kristol, “The Standard Weekly”

http://time.com/4523900/donald-trump-gender/?xid=homepage

How Donald Trump Turned 2016 Into a Referendum on Gender”

Charlotte Alter, “Time”

A few articles are on Trump’s comment to jail Clinton

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440917/donald-trump-special-prosecutor-hillary-clinton-debate

“The Obama Justice Department’s ‘investigation’ of Hillary Clinton was the real banana-republic event.” By Andrew McCarthy “National Review”

 

ABC news


Polls are not leading the news. Although headliners are about the debate

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-fulfill-big-debate-promise/story?id=42700606&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_hero_headlines_bsq_hed

“If Elected, Trump May Not Be Able to Fulfill Big Debate Promise” by Mike Levine and Jack Date

This is the first news site out of my selected 4 that has covered something on Hurricane Mathew. Although, most of the news stories are about celebrities, and more on the entertainment side, it is very odd that the hurricane hasn’t had much coverage considering the amount of destruction it has caused.

Poll: 272 Clinton 197 Trump

Five Thirty-Eight

Updated election forecast map to the right hand top side of the website

Articles are not led by the polls, but are led by the debate.

Mostly sports stories other than that.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-second-debate-probably-didnt-help-trump-and-he-needed-help/

“The Second Debate Probably Didn’t Help Trump, And He Needed Help” by Nate Silver

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/paul-ryan-needs-trump-more-than-trump-needs-ryan/

“Paul Ryan Needs Trump More Than Trump Needs Ryan” by Harry Enton


Most of the news organizations I chose, this week, all covered the same things: the debate, “Trump tape”, Paul Ryan’s statement, etc. Only ABC news had coverage about Hurricane Mathew on their homepage.  

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