Dan Bishop won today's special election in the 9th district of North Carolina. He beat the Democrat by a much larger margin than was the case in this district in 2018 when the race was extremely close.
So how has this been covered? Until today, the media line was that the GOP was "struggling" to try to "avoid" the Democrats' blue wave. The race was "surprisingly close", or it was "trending to the Democrats." The truth, of course, turned out otherwise, but that really doesn't matter to the mainstream media.
It would be nice to see the media just cover this as a GOP win in a district that one would normally expect to be won by a Republican. I don't get why media outlets like The Hill, Politico and CNN can't just be straight with the voters.
So how has this been covered? Until today, the media line was that the GOP was "struggling" to try to "avoid" the Democrats' blue wave. The race was "surprisingly close", or it was "trending to the Democrats." The truth, of course, turned out otherwise, but that really doesn't matter to the mainstream media.
It would be nice to see the media just cover this as a GOP win in a district that one would normally expect to be won by a Republican. I don't get why media outlets like The Hill, Politico and CNN can't just be straight with the voters.
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