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CNN manipulates maps to favor Hillary [UPDATEDx2]

by ecostar

Sat Mar 08, 2008 at 10:15:17 AM PDT

Whenever you click on the map link on CNN's election page results, it takes you to a page that shows how each county voted.  Light blue is Hillary and Dark Blue is Obama.  We won't get into the possible racial overtones present in that choice.  Instead, I want to point out something curious, which I also noticed in a couple of the counties on the Texas map.  Whenever, a county has Obama and Clinton with an equal number of votes, instead of coloring some other color, they shade the county as if Hillary had won the County.

For anyone who doesn't mouse over the results, this gives the false impression that Clinton has more support than she actually does. For those interested in checking it out, here's the link.

Furthermore, even though Texas and many in the MSM have given Obama the delegates for TX, CNN still shows the race as undecided, with no delegates awarded, and yet when the GOP stopped counting caucus votes in WA, CNN still checked off McCain as the winner even though the race was fairly close.

CNN obviously has cast their lot with the Hillary campaign.

Update:  They did the same thing in Coryell county Texas too!

Update 2: Several have pointed out that when HRC had the delegate lead, map colors were reversed.  Thus, they're choice of colors for each candidate is NOT due to racial overtones.  That was not the purpose of this diary, however.

UPDATE 3:  Apparently everyone's complaints to CNN got them to change the map colors.  Now black signifies "no clear favorite".

Tags: CNN, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Wyoming, Texas, Caucuses (all tags) :: Previous Tag Versions

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