Elections of the future

Breaking: Hillary Clinton wins re-election in 2020! I know it must be true because the establishment told me so! #APRetract

— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) June 7, 2016

The Associated Press’s announcement of a Democratic nominee, an announcement made on the eve of major primaries and seven weeks before the party’s convention, is to my mind a low point in journalism. AP, report the news. Don’t manufacture it. And don’t suppress the vote.