OPINION
Election night showed why Trump voters don’t trust the media: Goodwin
By Michael Goodwin
November 4, 2020 | 7:45pm
My favorite definition of a cynic: a premature realist.
Today we are all cynics or damn well should be. Show me an American who trusts politicians, polls, news organizations and social media bigs who fancy themselves our new masters and I’ll show you a fool.
Regarding the forecasts of how the election would go, Casey Stengel’s line about the hapless 1962 Mets fits the moment: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
As we stand on the smoking ruins of shattered predictions, the answer is no, a thousand times no. The usual suspects are bumblers — and that’s being kind because some are downright dishonest.
A disputed presidential election that appears destined for the courts is the worst possible outcome for a nation already gagging on anger and polarization. Yet that’s where we are and while the campaigns position themselves for the final drama, it’s impossible to divorce the shocking results from the run-up to it.
The wall-to-wall promises of a blue wave were delivered with all the certainty of prophecy. Joe Biden and Democrats would sweep the White House and all of congress from sea to shining sea. Even a large voter survey that Fox News did with the Associated Press suggested as much.
Some 24 hours after the polls closed, President Trump still has a fighting chance to get 270 electoral votes, the GOP is holding on to a slim majority in the Senate and actually gained 5 House seats, narrowing the Dems majority to 12 seats.
We all make mistakes, and most of us try to avoid them. The problem with the unholy news-polling-social media-industrial complex is that the mistakes are so numerous and predictable that they begin to feel intentional.
Worse, all the mistakes run in one direction. What are the odds of that happening honestly?
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Their coverage of his supporters ranges from shock to contempt, as if their backing of the president makes them idiots unfit for America. Which, of course, is exactly why Trump was elected in the first place and got more than 68 million votes Tuesday, or five million more than in 2016.
Whatever the final score of the Electoral College, it’s already a given that the 2020 campaign has deepened the chasms tearing our country apart.
In that sense, the future is spoken for.
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