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And before the inevitable accusations that I am a "concern troll" materialize, I just want to say that I posted this because I am horrified that the Trump campaign would let this guy on CNN without at least making sure that he could argue that the the polls are questionable and that there are polls where Trump is at least tied if not winning.

That seems like a serious unforced error.

The fact that this article/video link is from Town Hall is really beside the point. So in this case, I think complaints about Town Hall aren't really relevant.

1 posted on 08/18/2016 3:51:25 PM PDT by Maceman
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I wasn’t troubled by it. The woman was a beeyotch.


2 posted on 08/18/2016 3:53:23 PM PDT by dforest
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Baloney.

Trump is not losing. The media is without exception, railing against him.

But nobody is listening.

Stop helping the other side, please.


3 posted on 08/18/2016 3:53:24 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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I wouldn’t get worried about it. This is “inside baseball” that only political junkies care about.


4 posted on 08/18/2016 3:54:01 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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Funny, I liked it. He simply didn’t accept her assumptions. Does anyone out there not realize that all the polls we see are meant to create opinion, not measure it?


5 posted on 08/18/2016 3:54:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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He’s increasing in the polls the past two days. Hillary should be worried.


6 posted on 08/18/2016 3:55:32 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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Says who?


7 posted on 08/18/2016 3:56:23 PM PDT by OKSooner (Please clap.)
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He did argue the polls were wrong. I thought he was GREAT!! I laughed a lot.


8 posted on 08/18/2016 3:56:54 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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Yeah I should be concerned that the Trump campaign says they are winning. Not.

Stop all the unforced error panic attacks.


9 posted on 08/18/2016 3:57:10 PM PDT by Williams (Make America Great Again)
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No problem there. In the last 3 days Trump has pulled even with the media polls and other polls have Trump ahead. Michael Cohen did the best he could. Everyone knows CNN is not fair and has no credibility.


10 posted on 08/18/2016 3:57:22 PM PDT by GilGil
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Cohen doesn’t take crap from anyone.


13 posted on 08/18/2016 3:57:56 PM PDT by Williams (Make America Great Again)
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What should be repeated is that the polls often have very little real information in them. In many cases the margin of error exceeds the difference between the candidates. That's one reason the polling results are so rapidly changing, some of the change is just statistical noise.

Here is an example poll from the LA Times, notice that the results are always within the error band, so statistically speaking the poll doesn't tell you much of anything.

14 posted on 08/18/2016 3:58:40 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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Cohen seemed incredulous and asked "says who?" repeatedly, even when told "polls...all of them."

These "Polls" fly in the face of what anyone can see at Trump's rallies.

He should have come back with "The Only poll that counts is the one on election day."

17 posted on 08/18/2016 4:00:28 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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I can’t find many who will vote for Hillary. There are some who will not vote for Trump. May be I should visit the slums to find more Hillary voters.


18 posted on 08/18/2016 4:00:40 PM PDT by entropy12 (Majority of Politicians are either Globalists pushing cheap labor express or are Neocons.)
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“Isn’t winning” and “behind in the polls” are two vastly different concepts. The fact that some pundit would say that Trump isn’t winning this early is absurd. It is just too early.

By the polls, Reagan was not winning until just before the election, if then.


20 posted on 08/18/2016 4:01:21 PM PDT by odawg
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You never know if the clips are cut off, here is the whole 16 minutes;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnYHqg6ICoA


21 posted on 08/18/2016 4:01:46 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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Yeah, agreed that that Cohen dude is just too obnoxious to be speaking on TV for Trump. IMO, he will do more harm than good. He was also very obnoxious in the primaries.


22 posted on 08/18/2016 4:02:46 PM PDT by mtrott
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CNN is still a thing?


23 posted on 08/18/2016 4:03:27 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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even when told "polls...all of them."

Nope. Not anymore CNN.

24 posted on 08/18/2016 4:03:35 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Hillary is spending millions to preserve what seems in many polls to be a small lead. Trump is spending very little.

I’m guessing this is not missed on the Hillary camp.

I would suspect that at some point Trump will start spending money on advertising and by the time he does Hillary will have had to show many of her best cards as well as spent a lot of her available resources.


27 posted on 08/18/2016 4:03:58 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Nonsense.

That’s all that’s left to be said.

We’ll see the only poll that counts — the one in November.


29 posted on 08/18/2016 4:05:30 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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