The New York Times Upshot is a data-focused part of the newspaper, but just like the Times, it has a liberal bent. In their recent data piece entitled, “You draw it: What got better or worse during Obama’s presidency”, Upshot put out mostly-positive statistics about the Obama presidency. Here’s what they put out: Unemployment rate […]
In a mea culpa to its readers, New York Times public editor Liz Spayd tried to explain why the paper, along with a majority of the liberal media, badly missed predicting Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday: “On Tuesday afternoon, The New York Times told readers in its Upshot polling feature that Hillary Clinton had an 84 percent […]
Donald Trump won Pennsylvania at around 2 AM Eastern time, which put him over the 270 electoral vote threshold. The liberal media did not believe their eyes and neither could pollsters, where some put Trump’s chances of winning as low as 8% last week (Looking at you, New York Times’ Upshot). Who called the race […]
The liberal media appears to be all-in on Hillary Clinton winning the White House tonight: The Washington Post’s The Fix said Clinton will win with 275 electoral votes. The New York Times’ Upshot downgraded from 92% chance of a Clinton win to 84% this week. Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight gave Clinton a 71% chance of winning, […]
The writer for the Upshot of the New York Times warns of higher insurance premium increases this upcoming year. Thanks, Obama: It already looks clear that many Obamacare insurance plans are going to raise their prices significantly… Over the last two years, I’ve written articles warning against scary headlines that exaggerate premium increases. Next year, […]
New York Times’ Upshot blog had some interesting charts on how Hillary is losing support in the Democratic Party. First, her net favorability ratings have plummeted and second, her polling is near 2008 levels: