Good Question

• Bernie Won All the Focus Groups & Online Polls, So Why Is the Media Saying Hillary Won the Debate?
  

  Firstly, it’s important to point out that online polls, and to a lesser extent focus groups, are obviously not scientific. But it’s also important to point out that the echo chamber musings of establishment liberal pundits is far, far less scientific. It wasn’t that the online polls and focus groups had Sanders winning, it’s that they had him winning by a lot. And it wasn’t just that the pundit class has Clinton winning, it’s that they had her winning by a lot. This gap speaks to a larger gap we’ve seen since the beginning of the Sanders campaign. The mainstream media writes off Bernie and is constantly shocked when his polls numbers go up.

  Adam Johnson, AlterNet.
• Jurassicpork's imagining of President Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby as written by a selection of modern Republicans.  (Letter linked to in article, but you might want to see it first.)