Protecting Hillary Clinton from Further Embarrassment, Washington Post-ABC News Poll Writes Bernie Sanders Out of Its Narrative on GOP Head-to-Head Match-ups Carrie Miller Follow Mar 9, 2016 · 2 min read

Could the cheerleading of the Washington Post and ABC News for Hillary Clinton get any more flagrant than today’s publication of a poll that pitted the former Secretary of State against the three leading candidates on the GOP side: Trump, Cruz and Rubio. 

“Poll: Clinton Leads Trump, Aided by Obama Coalition,” the headline read.  I have become accustomed to having any good news about Bernie Sanders hidden 10 graphs down, so I went looking for what I knew would be an even better result for Sanders versus the Republicans, as PolitiFact recently confirmed has consistently been the case. 

But I was astonished to learn that rather than merely bury the good news about Sanders, without any type of explanation or excuse, ABC and the Washington Post had decided to bury his candidacy altogether. 

Perhaps this glaring omission owes to when the poll was taken: March 3–6, as the Clinton campaign and her corporate media apologists, armed with their 30-point lead in the Michigan polls, were preparing to turn the corner together towards the general election, tossing Senator Sanders out of the back seat as they did so. 

Given Tuesday’s results, I think these news organizations would have been better served by quietly eating whatever costs they put into this polling and paying for a do-over, acknowledging, as they must today, that the political obituary they keep trying to write continues to be premature.