Bunch of journalists who said Trump would not get the nomination

Most interesting is the musing about what it means that so many prominent pundits were so absolutely wrong.

Influential journalists live much different lives from the mass of voters on whose behalf they think they can speak — or, at least, whose thoughts and actions they believe they can anticipate. They also often have different interests, including an inclination to prefer status quo preservation (and to see the status quo more favorably) than those who have been less rewarded by the status quo. The media class, by and large, is not furious with the political class or with prevailing conditions, and they thus failed to detect the sentiments of anger and anxiety that drove the Trump campaign (and, in some similar ways, the Sanders campaign).

Beyond Schadenfreude, the Spectacular Pundit Failure on Trump Is Worth Remembering
A collective error of this magnitude requires some serious self-examination.

  1. They just typed stuff they wanted to happen…politics is all about inertia…and theres only one with enough positive movement to outweigh the negative.

  2. +Rob Rosson You're absolutely right. Which is why the media repeat things they potentially know aren't accurate. You say it enough and it becomes real, at least for those with enough influence.

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