An Obvious Oversight

One very obvious point I should have made in my last post, but didn't, is that Clinton got really crappy press. Some of it was her fault for doing and saying dumb stuff, but mostly it was the same sort of piling on that hammered Al Gore in 2000. It seems likely that in a fair fight, unhampered by press misogyny or Clinton Derangement Syndrome, she would have squeaked out just enough additional delegates to take the prize. (Or perhaps not; Obama's district-by-district tactical maneuvering was brilliant.) I think it's a good thing that Obama won the nomination, but if the press managed to change the course of the election, that's very bad; media bias is an extremely pernicious force in the US, and I hate to see it win any victories.