The Media's Anti-Democratic Bias Showed In The Midterm Election

The media ran with Republican talking points about crime and inflation and ended up getting the midterm wrong.

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It has been days since election day 2022, and the one thing that has been missing in the mainstream media coverage is how so many of the big corporate outlets that the American people were told to trust as the only source of “real news” got the election completely wrong.

A viewer could watch MSNBC, CNN, or Fox News and be delivered the same message that Democrats were going to lose badly.

The message didn’t make sense to us at PoliticusUSA’s The Daily because it didn’t match up with the credible neutral polls, early voting data, and mail-in voting data.

All of the data suggested that the midterm was a close election and that Republicans were not going to get a red wave.

A week and a half before the election I wrote about how a turnout model showed that Democrats could keep the House if they got a 2018-level turnout.

PoliticusUSA was able to see the election for what it was because we don’t base our coverage around talking points like the big cor…