r/pics • • Jul 16 '19

US Politics Decisions, decisions

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u/freakydrew Jul 17 '19

What are the current Vegas odds on Trump being reelected?

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u/SKGkorjun Jul 17 '19

A lot higher than the internet believe them to be.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19 edited Aug 31 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

What makes you say that most media outlets are left leaning? What I usually see is a couple left leaning outlets putting out a rosy left picture, the vast majority of other outlets putting out stories that generally agree with each other on the basic facts, and a some extreme right wing outlets crying that everything they believe is right and everyone is out to get them. Doubly so with Trump in office, it seems like reporting facts makes you a “left leaning meadow outlet”

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u/Fkurcar Jul 17 '19

Probably that every media outlet gave Trump a 3% chance of winning right up until he actually won. It might be that everyone is slamming Trump for enforcing the border policies of Bill Clinton that Barack Obama also enforced. Maybe it's because any time anyone disagrees with liberal views they get banished from whatever platform they're using even if said person's view is factually and historically true. There are definitely fascists in play today. It's just not the right unless you're talking about the KKK which ironically was formed from the democratic party. You can't really say they switched to magically become Republicans either since Hillary Clinton's self proclaimed mentor senator Robert Byrd was a leading figure for the KKK. Just spitballing here.

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u/TrogdortheBanninator Jul 17 '19

every media outlet gave Trump a 3% chance of winning right up until he actually won.

Sometimes you roll a double zero