Posted on 08/05/2016 7:50:02 AM PDT by seastay
A raft of new national and battleground polls released Thursday found Donald Trump slipping well behind Hillary Clinton one week after the end of the Democratic convention, and as the Republican nominee reels from a public feud with the parents of a slain Muslim American soldier.
"There has clearly been a significant movement toward Clinton in the last week," said Ken Goldstein, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and polling analyst for Bloomberg Politics. "Some of it is a Clinton post-convention bounce, but more of it seems to be a Trump deflation or implosion."
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A NBC/Wall Street Journal national survey found Trump trailing Clinton by 9 points (up from five points last month).
Ayres cautioned that polls at this juncture early may yet be fluid.
"The general rule is that you wait a couple of weeks after both conventions finish. Before you start assuming that polls are particularly predictive," he said. "Around the middle of August we'll start to get a sense of where the race stands after the dust settles from the Democratic convention and the Trump convention."
Goldstein said polling averages are more instructive than any one poll, but that a steady Clinton lead of 7 or 8 points could harm Republicans down the ballot.
"Fifteen points is more than Ronald Reagan won in his landslide victories," he said. "If you're in a world where it's over 10, then this is a landslide of historic proportions."
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He will be!!!
And #### what any fellow workers or acquaintances think of your supporting Trump.
Are they paying your bills? Are they going to help you when a bunch of the terrorists that obama has let in open fire?
No to both, I am sure.
#### em.
That's as far as I read.
That’s definitely true about polls. But what I’m saying is that in 2012 many were saying the polls were deliberately skewed to show an Obama lead when Romney was really ahead. The intent, it was said, was to create an air of an inevitable Obama victory, and therefore suppress support for Romney.
As it turned out, the polls showing Obama with a modest but decisive lead were correct. Or I suppose it’s possible that the polls were indeed skewed, and they had the desired effect of influencing the outcome, but that seems unlikely.
It was not so much the polls in 2012 but massive voter fraud. The Dems are good at doing voter fraud. Romney did not help matters either, but it was voter fraud that did him in.
The only sort of pro trump guy on KFI is on vacation now too. Though you can tell Tim Conway Jr will be voting for him too.
Well it is moot now that Trump has signaled his strong support for Ryan.
Interestingly enough, Trump has some of the most favorable ratings in WI compared to the rest of the states.
So that is a good sign.
“Well it is moot now that Trump has signaled his strong support for Ryan.”
Strong support?
On a glass beaker, that level of support would barely, if at all, rise to the required level. Certainly, no overflow.
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