Daily Deacon

SC primary coverage analysis – Brandon Liu

Clinton Trounces Sanders to win South Carolina Democratic Primary – by Maya T. Prabhu and Schuyler Kropf

This article is very informative, and provides videos and images that capture Hillary’s success well. It also provides good background info and comparison to how she performed vs Obama in 2008 which is significant because her success was greatly attributed to the minorities. Many of the verbs may seem bias, but I think they are justifiable due to Hilary’s 73% vote. Although the article is focused on Hillary, it does not forget to cover data and information regarding Sander’s votes. Great use of quotes that capture the main thesis of Hillary’s campaign. The quotes used at the end also capture the voters and public’s enthusiasm regarding the primary.

The article’s could maybe add some visuals for the data to make them more clear.

Trump Wins South Carolina Primary in Runaway – Schuyler Kropf

This article excels on immediately addressing all of the other relevant candidates right after the lede. Includes numerous quotes from all of the leading candidates. Does a good job of covering the next steps, such as Cruz and Trump expected to compete over previous Bush supporters.

The article could use some more quotes from the voters. It uses data from an exit poll, but only interviews two people, a wife and husband, which are not diverse enough. The Democratic primary coverage included more interesting statistics regarding the composition of the voters for each candidate. I think the article jumped around from candidate to candidate a little bit too frequently making it less fluent.