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Hillary loses half her lead against Trump

reason10

reason10

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http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/08/25/hillary_loses_half_of_her_lead_against_trump

Hillary Loses Half of Her Lead Against Trump
RUSH: New polling data out. This is from TheHill.com. "Hillary Clinton leads Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by 3 points in the latest national poll, a tighter margin than earlier this month. Clinton, the Democratic nominee, leads Trump 47 percent to 44 percent in the Economist/YouGov online poll of registered voters based on a head-to-head match-up. Although Clinton held a 3-point edge in the poll early this month, she had expanded that lead to as many as 7 points in recent weeks."

The headline should be: "Hillary Loses Half of Her Lead Over Trump," but of course it never will be. I'll tell you, we had polls yesterday showing Hillary only up 2 in Florida, maybe Trump was up 2 in Florida. The race is tightening.

Read 'em and weep, Hillbots. It ain't over until the fat lady sings.
 
reason10 said:
He certainly was. A lot of people based that on the fact that Lloyd Bentson was up against Dan Quayle in the Vice Presidential stakes.
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I still remember that debate. Bentsen's "you're no Jack Kennedy" was big news. Lloyd Bentsen was a loser. He never met a tax increase he didn't love.
 
reason10 said:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/08/25/hillary_loses_half_of_her_lead_against_trump
Hillary Loses Half of Her Lead Against Trump
RUSH: New polling data out. This is from TheHill.com. "Hillary Clinton leads Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by 3 points in the latest national poll, a tighter margin than earlier this month. Clinton, the Democratic nominee, leads Trump 47 percent to 44 percent in the Economist/YouGov online poll of registered voters based on a head-to-head match-up. Although Clinton held a 3-point edge in the poll early this month, she had expanded that lead to as many as 7 points in recent weeks."

The headline should be: "Hillary Loses Half of Her Lead Over Trump," but of course it never will be. I'll tell you, we had polls yesterday showing Hillary only up 2 in Florida, maybe Trump was up 2 in Florida. The race is tightening.

Read 'em and weep, Hillbots. It ain't over until the fat lady sings.
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Limbaugh picks and chooses which polls to notice, and the dittoheads who listen to him are thus kept aware of only the news that fits their worldview. Since every individual poll is noisy, you can always cherry-pick from among the list of polls to find something that tells you what you want to believe. For example, I could point to the recent Quinnipiac poll that has Clinton up by 10. But polling averages are a more sensible way to keep track:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...s/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html

As you can see, the average today is +6 for Clinton. That average has been pretty steady from the start of August -- moving between +3.9 to +7.7. There's been no meaningful trend in almost a month now -- just day-to-day noise.
 
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Fast Eddy said:
Some polls have Trump in the lead.
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Which ones? The last scientific poll (as opposed to online polls of whoever happens to respond) that I saw with Trump ahead was the CNN 7/22-7/24 poll that had him up by 3. But they have a more recent poll for 7/29-7/31 with Clinton up by 9.
 
Wolfert Webber said:
Wasn't Dukakis headed for a landslide too?
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Not at this stage he wasn't. That's just something right-wingers tell themselves while they whistle by the graveyard.

Here's the New York Times reporting from late August of '88, showing a 4-point Bush lead:

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-24/news/mn-820_1_gallup-poll

Although Dukakis dominated the polls in July, by late August Bush was ahead, and the first polls of September had Bush up by a large margin (49% to 41%).

That doesn't mean Trump can't win. But it means he'd have to pull off a comeback that may be unprecedented in modern political history. Reagan was leading Carter by early July and Bush was leading Dukakis by late August. I'm unaware of anyone in a presidential election trailing by a 6 point average spread at this stage and then winning. The closest thing that comes to mind is Gore, who was a point behind Bush at this stage of 2000 but went on to win that election by a statistically insignificant margin.
 
Arkady said:
Not at this stage he wasn't. That's just something right-wingers tell themselves while they whistle by the graveyard.

Here's the New York Times reporting from late August of '88, showing a 4-point Bush lead:

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-24/news/mn-820_1_gallup-poll

Although Dukakis dominated the polls in July, by late August Bush was ahead, and the first polls of September had Bush up by a large margin (49% to 41%).

That doesn't mean Trump can't win. But it means he'd have to pull off a comeback that may be unprecedented in modern political history. Reagan was leading Carter by early July and Bush was leading Dukakis by late August. I'm unaware of anyone in a presidential election trailing by a 6 point average spread at this stage and then winning. The closest thing that comes to mind is Gore, who was a point behind Bush at this stage of 2000 but went on to win that election by a statistically insignificant margin.
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Still butthurt over Gore's loss. LOL!
 
marvin martian said:
Still butthurt over Gore's loss. LOL!
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Like all patriots, I'm still outraged by the Supreme Court conservatives stealing that election. But for purposes of this discussion, this is merely an example of a politician who was behind in August but nevertheless managed to win the actual election-day tally.
 
<<<<Limbaugh picks and chooses which polls to notice, and the dittoheads who listen to him are thus kept aware of only the news that fits their worldview.>>>>

That's a [Unwelcome language removed] lie.

It's a good thing your nose doesn't grow every time you lie, otherwise it would be a [Unwelcome language removed] mile long by now.

Her lead is cut in HALF. PERIOD. End of argument.

And you [Unwelcome language removed] HATE IT.

You're the only one making noise here.
 
<<<<Like all patriots, I'm still outraged by the Supreme Court conservatives stealing that election. But for purposes of this discussion, this is merely an example of a politician who was behind in August but nevertheless managed to win the actual election-day tally.>>>>
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No election was stolen. George W. Bush WON the most Electoral College votes on Election night. The Algore campaign tried to corrupt the recount process (even though the recount produced more votes for Bush) and the LIBERAL Florida Supreme Court VIOLATED THE [Unwelcome language removed] 14TH AMENDMENT.

The United States Supreme Court overturned that VIOLATION and sent the case back to Florida.

NO [Unwelcome language removed] ELECTION WAS STOLEN OR CORRUPTED BY THE U.S. SUPREME COURT.
 
Arkady said:
Which ones? The last scientific poll (as opposed to online polls of whoever happens to respond) that I saw with Trump ahead was the CNN 7/22-7/24 poll that had him up by 3. But they have a more recent poll for 7/29-7/31 with Clinton up by 9.
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In other words
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any polls you don't approve of are not scientific.
Got it.
 
Arkady said:
No need to throw a tantrum, little boy. I asked a question. Which ones? Which specific polls have Trump in front. Got an answer to that?
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I haven't thrown a tantrum. I just put an idiot in his place.

And the polls having Trump in front are in the article. Intelligent people have already read it, so you probably should as well.

You have this habit of commenting on things you know absolutely NOTHING about.
 
reason10 said:
I haven't thrown a tantrum. I just put an idiot in his place.

And the polls having Trump in front are in the article. Intelligent people have already read it, so you probably should as well.

You have this habit of commenting on things you know absolutely NOTHING about.
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Which polls?
 
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