<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>libertymcateer</author><text>&amp;gt; With last night&amp;#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?&lt;p&gt;Specious assumption. My conclusion is that the favorability ratings are bullshit.&lt;p&gt;To posit that a huge media conspiracy has caused millions of voters to vote huge, huge landslides in favor of these two people is just ridiculous compared with the probability that measuring very complex and ineffable metrics like &amp;quot;favorability&amp;quot; is a total crapshoot, especially in a world where voters like myself (and many HNers, I suspect) do not have landlines, use ad-blockers, do not click on advertising online and do not fill out surveys.&lt;p&gt;Tl;dr the likelihood of media influence controlling this election to such huge, huge landslide outcomes is overwhelmingly improbable compared to the high likelihood that favorability metrics are junk-science.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unclesaamm</author><text>With last night&amp;#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?&lt;p&gt;To me, media is an obvious one. Turner Broadcasting is a major corporate donor to Clinton, and the NYT is all but falling over themselves to build connections with a Clinton administration.&lt;p&gt;Another similarity is neither Clinton or Trump care that much about consistency, which makes them much shinier objects to cover. See this article for a rare example of the NYT even being unable to notice Hillary&amp;#x27;s flip flopping: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;campaign-stops&amp;#x2F;which-side-are-you-on-hillary.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;campaign-stops&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the New York Times Sandbagged Bernie Sanders</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Or, it&amp;#x27;s because people like their platforms. Hilary skews right within the democratic party, and Trump skews left on a lot of key issues. Trump isn&amp;#x27;t out there calling to get rid of the IRS, and Clinton isn&amp;#x27;t out there saying she will make college free.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unclesaamm</author><text>With last night&amp;#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?&lt;p&gt;To me, media is an obvious one. Turner Broadcasting is a major corporate donor to Clinton, and the NYT is all but falling over themselves to build connections with a Clinton administration.&lt;p&gt;Another similarity is neither Clinton or Trump care that much about consistency, which makes them much shinier objects to cover. See this article for a rare example of the NYT even being unable to notice Hillary&amp;#x27;s flip flopping: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;campaign-stops&amp;#x2F;which-side-are-you-on-hillary.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;campaign-stops&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the New York Times Sandbagged Bernie Sanders</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315</url></story>