Trump outperforming Romney by 16-points– Washington Post/ABC News poll

Sharyl Attkisson.com ^ | August 18, 2016 | sattkisson

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I’m left with the impression that publicly announced polls aren’t worth very much this early in the election.

They might have improved their polling method since Romney, but then again, who knows?

We best assume that winning is very possible if people care enough.

FRegards ....

[Agamemnon]

In my opinion, Reagan didn't "surge" at the end. He was probably way ahead of Carter all along.

You recall this correctly.

You may also recall that GHWB was supposedly 17-points behind Dukakis in August, 1988.

Dana Perino is all butt-hurt for Bush. She publishes her book, "And the good news is ...." last year, and put a happy face on a lot of things. Now, this year she is called "Debby Downer" and "Negative Nancy" - or so she said on O'Reilly, and is now because she thinks the polls have been so accurate since 1952. She chooses that date since the Dewey Truman race of 1948 defied polls. She feels foolish for having believed polls in 2012 in the end pointing to a Romney win and said it was Bob Beckel who was right.

Oh, you mean ballot-stuffer Bob, who chortled openly on Hannity back in 2012 about all the (D) vote manipulation that goes on in Fairfax County? Sure he knew about fraud -- but Perino has apparently never even considered the degree that it occurred in 2012.

This chick was 8 years old when the 1980 Reagan victory happened - she has no meaningful personal recollection of it I'm sure. She was a 16 year-old high school teenie-bopper at the time of the Bush v. Dukakis example I just gave. Maybe she was taking high school civics class, where they focused on "Kitty litter" (remember the bottles of alcohol Kitty Dukakis was stashing - sorta like Tom Eagleton did as McGovern's running mate did and had to get replaced by Muskie in 1972. Dana was sill just nursing then.)

Fact is, Sam, it sounds like you and I were there and remember it like yesterday, and Dana's just another pretty has-been with a substantially uninformed opinion. The establishment made her. She'll stick by the Establishment.

FReegards!

[NKP_Vet]

Hitler finds out Hillary Clinton has been using his email server.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2_mqdfaJM

[KavMan]

LOL Please don’t compare Romney to TRUMP!

Romney had no one excited about him, TRUMP has a damn movement behind him & just look at all those Youtube videos of TRUMP’s face superimposed on movies, Romney had none of that!

[Kay Ludlow]

No question about the indoctrination! Send kids off the college, especially grad school, and they come back as good little leftists. As far as the issue though, I believe they are using the education question in the polls to reduce the weight of those who would vote for Trump, so the polls show Hillary further ahead ;-)

[fortes fortuna juvat]

News of anything that humiliates Mittens puts a big smile on my face. Cannot stand that obsequious establishment toady.

[realEmperorNorton]

I clicked on the link to the new Trump Youtube ad in comment 34 in this thread, and it crashed my computer.

Earlier today, I clicked on the link in a Breaking News thread (”NEW: Donald Trump’s First General Election Ad, “Two Americas”. MAGA! HD (video)” to the same Trump video, and it crashed my computer two times.

Am I doing something wrong? Thanks!

[WilliamCooper1]

My father is absolutely convinced that Romney had a win stolen. He said he waited in voting lines longer than he had in his entire life. And they weren’t Obama voters.

[Nero Germanicus]

The final ABC News/Washington Post poll before the 2012 election had Obama at 50 ( he ended up with 51%) and Romney at 47 (exactly what he got).
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html

[Intolerant in NJ]

Finding substantially more respondents identifying with one party over another could be an indication that the makeup of the electorate is changing, she adds...this is cr*p - a rationalization for continuing to use samples overrepresentative of 'rats - you don't make adjustments when you have no reason to believe that your universe is skewed one way or another - but when you have some indication that it is, and by how much - voter registrations or models of past years' turnouts - it's polling malpractice to continue to insist that every sample you take is perfectly representative of the factor you're evaluating - whether or not the electorate is changing is another issue which should be checked by another study - you can't determine both the possible change in the electorate and the current voter preferences in one study - not honestly anyway.....