Heading into the midterms, the media misjudged the electorate—and underestimated President Joe Biden. “Just about everything the media suggested voters didn’t care about, they cared about passionately,” writes MollyJongFast.
in September of the GOP’s MAGA wing. “And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.”in Washington, DC, just days before the midterms, he recalled the disturbing hammer attack onwhere a deranged man broke into the Pelosi residence screaming, “Where’s Nancy?”—the very same thing rioters screamed on January 6.
But it wasn’t just that voters voted for democracy and abortion rights, they also rejected some of Republicans most disgusting culture-war tropes. Conservative groups reportedly spent overtargeting transgender people. Voters absolutely had no interest in trying to bully LGBTQ+ people. The GOP hammered away on the idea that Biden’s policies had caused inflation, but evidently, many voters noticed that inflation was a global problem.
The political-industrial media complex was wrong. You can blame polls for some of the faulty predictions; Trafalgar, for one,the zone with junky partisan polls. But much of what happened looks more like groupthink that happens when you’re trying to make a supposition on too little information. Journalists, myself included, need to spend more time reflecting on the country we’re writing about and less time trying to get the country we’re writing about to conform to what we wish it to be.
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