re: #294 Anymouse 🌹

Why didn’t they check there? Again, the World-Herald is Republican-aligned, so is the Wall Street Journal.

As for voters, how many voters are actually political junkies who check those sorts of things? And for those who are, Daily Kos misreported it using the same articles. The political junkies who read there were also mislead, because Kos did not use Journalism 101 either.

As noted in The Nation article, the initial push against Mello was from a woman in Tennessee who’d never heard of him until the faulty articles came out. (“Faulty” is the most charitable words I’ll use to describe them.)

The Nation actually checked his record. Planned Parenthood actually gave him a 100% rating (which didn’t seem to make it into anyone’s reporting either). I’m not of the opinion that Planned Parenthood is anti-choice.

I’ve tried to bail on this a couple times already. I’ll leave The Nation link again, in case it wasn’t read before, on how he was actually torpedoed from outside the state.

thenation.com

You’re making it sound like this was a gigantic conspiracy by Republicans at this Omaha Newspaper and the WSJ and Democratic activists from outside the state to deny him the election. Can’t you just concede that the voters had some obligation to actually research? I’m sorry but if the Dem nominee was regarded as weak on a key issue to me, I’d look into it any way I could to verify its accuracy. And you know what? I’ve actually done that since Tim Kaine was characterized as being anti-abortion when he first ran for state wide office. And I do see Mello’s 100% PP rating. I also see that the head of NARAL criticized him and that he also had a 0% from PP other years.