Posted on 08/24/2016 1:27:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump has a 2-point lead over Hillary Clinton in the battleground state of Florida, a new poll finds.
A new Florida Atlantic University survey released on Wednesday shows the Republican presidential nominee leading his Democratic counterpart 43 percent to 41 percent, which is within the survey’s margin of error. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson captures 8 percent, and 5 percent are undecided.
This is the first poll showing Trump leading Clinton in the Sunshine State since early July, according to RealClearPolitics polling....
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Clinton leads among female voters and African-Americans by nearly 50 points and Hispanics by 10 points
I have my doubts.
She should have a 15 point lead by now. The fact that she’s spent millions, upon millions, upon millions to Trump spending (up to now) next to nothing doesn’t bode well. She’s in big, big, big trouble.
Hmmm... yet realclearpolitics has Clinton up in FL by almost 4...
The Libertarian Gary Johnson’s poll numbers will evaporate come Election Day. Will be surprised if he gets more than 3-5 percent at best.
About what? Which one doesn’t seem normal to you?
The hispanic one is MUCH better than i would have thought.
I’m glad.
But he’s gonna win this with the white male turnout.
What did Ralph Nader get there in 2000?
“What did Ralph Nader get there in 2000?”
Johnson seems to be pulling equally from both Clinton and Trump, maybe even more from Clinton:
From Wiki:
“The 2000 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, political activist, author, lecturer and attorney, began on February 21, 2000. He cited “a crisis of democracy” as motivation to run. [1] He ran in the 2000 United States presidential election as the nominee of the Green Party. He was also nominated by the Vermont Progressive Party[2] and the United Citizens Party of South Carolina.[3] The campaign marked Nader’s second presidential bid as the Green nominee, and his third overall, having run as a write-in campaign in 1992 and a passive campaign on the Green ballot line in 1996.
Nader’s vice presidential running mate was Winona LaDuke, an environmental activist and member of the Ojibwe tribe of Minnesota.
Nader appeared on the ballot in 43 states and DC, up from 22 in 1996. He won 2,882,995 votes, or 2.74 percent of the popular vote. His campaign did not attain the 5 percent required to qualify the Green Party for federally distributed public funding in the next election. The percentage did, however, enable the Green Party to achieve ballot status in many new states, such as Delaware and Maryland.[4]
Some people claim that Nader acted as a third-party spoiler in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, while others, including Nader, dispute this claim”
caution....
those 8 percent for the so-called libertarian (who’s got some seriously leftist views)... could easily swing to Hilliary ...
RCP has TRUMP down like 16 points in VA!!!!
We need VA cause I don’t trust cocktease PA ever coming thru for us!!
Actually, my point here is not who the Libertarian may pull from in the election. It is that the MSM has a tendency to over poll the Libertarian candidates as doing better than they really are (they are doing that now with Hillary too). They think that Johnson will pull more votes from Trump than Hillary. However, what they really want is to have Johnson on the Debate stage with Trump and Clinton, to enhance the horse race and make for better TV ratings. The MSM always have an ulterior motive.
I see.
well, Johnson or whatever his name is...has certainly not earned a spot on the debate platform...that’s for sure...
incidentally, what the MSM probably wants the MOST is to minimize the amount of time Hilliary has to be on camera
to help protect her candidacy
imho. (note she has avoided almost ALL public appearances she can....she hasn’t even had a single news conference meeting with reporters in the last 258 days!....her poll numbers go down every time she lets the Americn public see or hear her...the only chance she has to get elected is if she remains the INVISIBLE CANDIDATE and keeps letting her propagandists in the Major Media push her cause in her absence)
When Hillary has a 2 point lead it is described as huge.
...RCP has TRUMP down like 16 points in VA!!!!.....
RCP is such a lagging indicator, I don’t know why anyone even goes there for today’s situation.
There is also an oddness in the FAU (via Gateway Pundit's report of the same poll),
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/shock-poll-trump-gets-20-percent-black-vote-florida-poll-leads-clinton-overall-43-41/
Specifically, Trump leads among males 46 percent to 36 percent, but trails Clinton among women 45 percent to 41 percent.
This does not add up, sure there are more women voters but +10 with men and -4 with women is not going to give +2 overall unless there are twice as many females in Florida as males !
A George Soros company based in Spain counts the votes from the Florida (and NY and 9 other states) voting machines. There is no hard record of the download. There are the paper ballots that Floridians fill out and deposit in the machine that reads them but Florida law states that those paper ballots may NOT be used to second guess the official count. I believe that all states that have that paper record of the vote have similar laws. The fraud is “baked into the cake” and cannot be challenged.
Laughable. If he has 20% black support and 40% hispanic he would run away with FL.
Amirite?
Yea, when Democrats botched the theft in FL in 2000, they made sure that would never happen again.
I AGREE. doesn’t make sense!!
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