All last week I kept reading stories about how tight the Michigan election would be......

[marmar]

..... including a Free Press story about a possible upset of Dana Nessel. .... In the end, it wasn't even close. Sometimes it feels like we're being fed a buffet of bullshit by the media.


https://www.detroitnews.com/elections/results/2022-11-08/state/michigan/


Whitmer 54.5%
Dixon 43.9%

........

Benson 55.9%
Karamo 41.9%

........

Nessel 53.2%
DePerno 44.5%

[dchill]

1. A "buffet of bullshit" it was! Perfect phrase!

It's almost like they're corporately owned.

[MerryHolidays]

2. We definitely were. It was an orchestrated campaign to set a narrative with the media

either to depress the Democratic turnout or set the stage for post-election challenges, or both.

The number of pro-Republican polls skewing the aggregator polls was staggering. Many did pick up on this in the last week or so.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. I believe this is due to Michigan undoing some republicon cheating,

like gerrymandering. Combined with Whitmer doing a good job.

I hope democrats there make their first priority the undoing of all the rotten things republicons did to that state.

Thanks to a couple Democratic US Senators helping Moscow Mitch, we are likely screwed for the federal government.

[modrepub]

4. The Mirage of Close Races

Keep the public’s attention on the news sources sites. More traffic means more ad revenue. Pollsters like close races because it means more polling (revenue for them).

So part of this is $. But in their defense polling alway was more of an art form. There’s really no way of knowing for sure until you count the votes.

[vlyons]

5. MSM are corporations, and what do corporations want?

More profit and less regulation. So they contribute to the party that supports those desires -- Republicans. Aside from just wishful thinking, if the MSM puts out messaging that Republicans will win BIG, then that is part of their strategy to discourage Dem voters. Republicans will win anyway, so why bother to vote? It's quite insidious. So even if Republicans do win, you still need to vote. It's not just our right, it's our civic duty. Besides, even if Republicans do win, there's always the next election.

I live in Dallas county TX, which went overwhelming Dem all up and down the ticket. That's really a miracle. Texas is still a long way from turning blue, but the big urban centers of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and El Paso are now very blue. We just need to do a better job of appealing to rural voters.

[gab13by13]

6. Shh.. don't say bad things about polls.😍

[louis-t]

7. Dixon still saying she won't accept results yet.

Another whiny ass crybaby.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. I hope she never accepts the results. The fix was in, Tudor.

She can whine about the election being rigged.

The state will move along anyway.

[Johnny2X2X]

9. People say they want a horse race

But that's not true, nationally they wanted a red wave, not a horse race. I don't understand really, the numbers never showed a red wave, the national polls showed a horse race. There simply wasn't a huge polling edge for Republicans, yet the Red Wave narrative just took off the last couple weeks.

Dems will likely pick up a seat in the Senate and Reps will gain 6 or 7 seats in the House. And you know what, that's what the polls were telling me all along. Dems didn't out perform the polls in most places, it's just that the media was convinced that Republicans were going to out perform the polls by a ton.

They didn't follow the data. The data was telling them to expect about the results that we saw. Hope ore is written about it.

In EPIC-MRA's final gubernatorial poll, 54% of respondents said they would vote for Whitmer, 43% said they would vote for Dixon. Whitmer’s final margin of victory was 54.5% to 44% to Dixon. The media ignored good data.