Democrat flak Eric Walker wins the spin award for the most intentionally misleading tweet during the Tuesday party caucuses.
The 2018 #copolitics enthusiasm gap in 2 photos: A packed auditorium for Dems at Alameda High, while 10 minutes up the road at Lakewood High, @WalkerStapleton talks to 9 people. #COCaucus #COGov #COleg pic.twitter.com/eSVnQbaKQl
— Eric Walker (@ericmwalker) March 7, 2018
There are several problems with Walker’s comparison, which were accurately pointed out by reporter Ernest Luning with Colorado Politics, who actually shot both of those photographs.
One is a whole building full of caucus-goers from multiple precincts, the other is a single precinct, as I can vouch since I took photo on right and have covered caucuses at location on left. Appears higher D turnout tonight, but this doesn’t illustrate that. #copolitics https://t.co/dvEdgUv3Zi
— Ernest Lee Luning (@eluning) March 7, 2018
Just to be clear, Luning followed up with this tweet:
To be clear, looks like Democrats turned out at significantly higher numbers than Republicans tonight for Colorado #caucuses. Republicans at location I covered said they couldn’t remember attendance being this low. But those 2 photos are illustrating different things.#copolitics
— Ernest Lee Luning (@eluning) March 7, 2018
We suppose these things happen. It’s fairly simple to just pull a random photograph from the Twitterverse and surmise its political ramifications. The following tweet, for example, with a picture from the Democratic Mother Ship, aka Boulder, that shows sparse attendance.