@inthehands Well, point #2 got smashed the last couple of days.
I really think what was driving it was MI polling, along with that primary "none of these candidates" majority. Bleeding out the black vote is also bleeding out young voters, except young people don't pick up the phone to get polled. Palestine was/is an election-breaker.
That said, I've been done with the NYT for about a year. Our press is profit-driven because so much is, thanks to the last 40 years.