"Sanders is still the most likely beneficiary from a fractured race. He’s a factional candidate with a solid floor, but he’s made inroads with Latinos and can probably do well in all of the early states and California. His biggest competition was Biden, and Biden is likely to suffer the most after tonight"
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/iowa-caucus-2020-election-live/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/iowa-caucus-2020-election-live/
FiveThirtyEight
What Did — And Didn’t — Go Down In The Iowa Caucuses
Visit the post for more.
A useful guide on talking to the media
https://itsgoingdown.org/how-to-talk-to-the-media-if-you-must/
https://itsgoingdown.org/how-to-talk-to-the-media-if-you-must/
It's Going Down
How To Talk to the Media, If You Must - It's Going Down
For better or for worse, anarchists are finding themselves in the spotlight of the mainstream news. Not since the anti-globalization movement, when thousands shut down the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Seattle, Washington in late 1999, has the…
"The current market-driven system isn’t neutral or natural. The decisions we make in structuring our media are deeply political, laden with value judgments. And the present system naturalizes the powerful and profitable while defunding adversarial journalism."
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/corporate-media-system-democracy/
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/corporate-media-system-democracy/
Jacobinmag
We Need a Media System That Serves People’s Needs, Not Corporations’
Our corporate media system prioritizes making money over producing adversarial journalism and covering working-class issues. We should dare to imagine something different: a public media system that privileges democracy over profits.
Pantopia Reading Nook 📰🚩 pinned «Do you want me to cover the 2020 US Elections on Pantopia Daily?»
"Bitecofer’s theory, when you boil it down, is that modern American elections are rarely shaped by voters changing their minds, but rather by shifts in who decides to vote in the first place. ... She sees things slightly differently: That the last few elections show that American politics really has changed, and other experts have been slow to process what it means."
www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/06/rachel-bitecofer-profile-election-forecasting-new-theory-108944
www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/06/rachel-bitecofer-profile-election-forecasting-new-theory-108944
POLITICO
An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter
Rachel Bitecofer’s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who’s going to win 2020?