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Old 09-11-2016, 05:45 AM   #211
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ABC 24 coverage, the host is being anti Trump.
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Would you expect any less of the ABC? lol
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I might see if RT (Russia Today) is doing election coverage, Russian state owned media may be less biased
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Must be, but Corry Bernadi feels Fox is a little left leaning.....
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fox news is like reading the daily tele, they are not a credible source of news
It's not like anyone watches ABC to be informed either.
It's merely to stay updated on how bigoted and sexist one is.
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Anyone calling it yet?
Have the poles closed or they still voting?
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Some have closed, Trump ahead 19 to 3.
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It's not like anyone watches ABC to be informed either.

It's merely to stay updated on how bigoted and sexist one is.


Yeh abc is munted as well. Worst part about listening to jjj is the biased news
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Fun fact: the electoral college does not have to vote the same as the popular vote.
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For anyone at a computer or on mobile search "us presidential election" on google and it will show you a live tally.
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And there is the biggest reason why I would like to see Trump win. The media is supposed to present the news from a neutral perspective. However in this campaign the bias towards the Clinton camp has been both blatant and astounding.

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You do know about what changed in the media rules with facts vs persuasive media right?

Media corporations in Australia used to be required to report
75% fact
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10% other (lifestyle, comedy articles etc)

The government passed rules subtly 9 years ago and the media no longer has to state facts legally.

This is the reason we now see 80% persuasive media reporting in Australia.

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theres so much coverage on most networks (but get smart is on ten). were not a part of america are we, maybe i missed something?
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Do people realise what will happen militarily if Trump wins?

Things will change big time in this country and not for the better.
One of the first things to go will be the ANZUS treaty.

And having that buffoon with his finger on the nuclear button.
Be very careful what you wish for.
That's just a totally unfounded lie that the insane Marxist media are peddling.

Trump says something and the media work to twist everything around with totally outrageous statements, that have noting to do with what he truly said at all and the media conduct a sound bites and work to base it off that, but if you bother to go look at the whole conversations that went down in detail, you can see the media have concocted his words and worked to set him up as a fool or a twit.

Problem is most people don't have the integrity to look past the media spin and games they play and are only media educated dolts that can't see past there nose what creeps the media truly are.

I believe Trump could fix the problems with the Mid east, because Obama has only worked to create most of the problems and that sticks out like dogs balls that they have created ISIS and are playing games with them all and on the other hand they want to pump all them radical nuts into the western world full on and nothing could be more moronic or down right stupid thing to do, I believe they are working to create anarchy down the track, so the Marxist can work so as to become dictators with more and more restrictive laws on laws until democracy is destroyed.
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Media is reckoning on 129 electoral college votes for Trump, 97 for Clinton.
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the media are sticking it to trump at every turn. but trump is doing good in the vote,imo. i reckon a lot of fat cats and well off are nervous, but now the people are speaking.
one jorno on the abc said "is the democracy system broken" referring to the trump lead, the nerve of him! then i changed channels.
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Here's a direct, no-bull**** live result count:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/us-election-2016/results/

Note the top bar + map are predictions, the bottom bar + map are actual results

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USAtoday are reporting Dow futures are down 2.2% due to Trump's strong showing thus far.
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This is the official count, not that ABC guessing rubbish

https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sour...ial%20election

Have a look at that map, its 4 to 1 states towards Trump
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e=presidential
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ABC guessing rubish (sic)?

As of 2pm, they're:

ABC - google
104 - 104 - Clinton
138 - 137 - Trump
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Its now 140 Trump - 104 Clinton
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