Article on Hillary Appealing Abuses

Lisa Sandberg wrote an article concerning declarations made by Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign about complaints that Barack Obama's supporters were carrying out a number of inappropriate actions during the caucus on Tuesday night, March 4. This article is posted on a political blog that is hosted by the both the Houston Chronicle and by the San Antonio Express News. A majority of Houston's Democratic population supports Obama and a majority of San Antonio's Democratic population supports Clinton, so the blog should be relatively unbiased overall between the two candidates. Lisa Sandberg, however, writes for San Antonio Express so a slightly favorable bias towards Clinton should be expected. The article gives most of its sources, directly quoting Garry Mauro and Josh Earnest, members of the Clinton campaign and the Obama campaign, respectively. Sandberg does not state her sources for the complaints about the caucus, but due to the fact that she is a writer for the San Antonio Express News it is unlikely that her sources are not credible. While Sandberg does not implicitly say whether the complaints about the caucus are credited or whether the Clinton campaign's stance on the issue is the correct one, the way she writes her article suggest that she supports Clinton. Most of the article describes Clinton's response to the complaints and only the very end of the article gives the Obama's point of view, that Clinton is trying to "discount the voice of those who participated" in the caucus. Throughout the article she does she gives reasons and support for Clinton's argument but only mentions Obama's argument, never giving any evidence or support for his argument. In Lisa Sandberg's argument Clinton and her supporters are the winners and Obama and his supporters are the losers.