“That said there is a strong strain of thought here on FR that Trump was ahead all along and this so called surge is simply the polls realigning with reality.”
How could it be otherwise? How could a woman who can hardly draw flies be far ahead in the polls against a man who can fill huge stadiums? It never made sense. Hillary is as exciting as stale bread and as charming as Ebenezer Scrooge before he had his dream.
She can draw flies. We have seen that.