The one big paper that didn’t seem to get the memo was the Los Angeles Times. The paper’s Peter Wallsten focused on the atmospherics of the race in a front pager headlined “Going negative proved positive in Clinton’s comeback.” Wallsten war-gamed strategies the Clinton and Obama camps might take now that the rhetoric of the race has gone negative. In the other election-related LAT front page story, reporter Mark Z. Barabak made several references to Barack Obama’s lead in the delegate count, without ever coming out and giving a sense of how hard it is going to be for Hillary to close the gap with him.

Yes, math is hard and — to quote Beckerman again — “Big Mo’ is tempting.” But readers and viewers need both to get the full picture.

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