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Trump gains on Clinton despite furor over women, election comments
Reuters ^ | Fri Oct 21, 2016 | 7:34pm EDT | Chris Kahn

Posted on 10/21/2016 4:39:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Donald Trump gained on Hillary Clinton among American voters this week, cutting her lead nearly in half despite a string of women accusing him of unwanted sexual advances and the furor over his disputed claims that the election process is rigged, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday.

The survey also showed that 63 percent of Americans, including a third of Republicans, believe the New York real estate mogul has committed sexual assault in the past, though the Republican presidential candidate has denied the recent accusations.

Clinton, the Democratic former secretary of state, led Trump 44 percent to 40 percent, according to the Oct. 14-20 poll, a 4-point lead, with the Nov. 8 election fast approaching. That compared with 44 percent for Clinton and 37 percent for Trump in the Oct. 7-13 poll released last week.

Clinton’s lead also shrank in a separate four-way poll that included alternative party candidates: 43 percent supported her, while 39 percent supported Trump, 6 percent supported Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, and 2 percent supported Jill Stein of the Green Party. …

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; hillary; trump; trumpbump
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To: nhwingut

This poll didn’t just get closer, it was a big 11 point swing putting Trump ahead 4 points ahead of Clinton (44 to 40) when the earlier poll had Trump behind by 7 points (37 to 44)


41 posted on 10/21/2016 5:48:22 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: nhwingut

Oops. My bad I read it wrong. It did close from 7 points to 4 points.


42 posted on 10/21/2016 5:49:39 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Liberals of course never meant for the one free grope rule to apply to Republican men.

But its peachy if Bubba got serviced with a BJ.


43 posted on 10/21/2016 5:49:42 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: cardinal4

Didn’t that Arizona poll by the biased “Arizona Republic” have a sample that was 58% democrat and 24% republican?

Their sample was D+34, and using these absurd numbers, Lying Hillary is up only 5%?

Trump wins Arizona, and wins it BIG!


44 posted on 10/21/2016 5:53:10 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (You can't spell TRIUMPH without TRUMP)
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To: WashingtonSource

Gloria Allred’s Sluts attack apparently backfired.


45 posted on 10/21/2016 5:53:34 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

D +34 electorate? In an alternate universe.


46 posted on 10/21/2016 5:54:33 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: goldstategop

Is he saying “Bigly” or “Big League” ?


47 posted on 10/21/2016 5:55:54 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: atc23

Bigly is a word.


48 posted on 10/21/2016 5:59:07 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: goldstategop

her base is going to vote even if they don’t want to vote, even if they don’t know they voted.


49 posted on 10/21/2016 6:05:29 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Olog-hai

What furor? Oh the presshole’s furor.

Who gives a damn.


50 posted on 10/21/2016 6:08:52 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Olog-hai
despite a string of women accusing him of unwanted sexual advances ...

Anybody that remembers dimocrat tactics in the last 3 or 4 elections knows there is always a parade of complainers that suddenly come out of the woodwork.

It's always funny that they remember things 3 weeks before an election that they have forgotten for the previous 10-20 years.

51 posted on 10/21/2016 6:16:03 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: atc23

Trump does say Big League. The media wants to interpret it as Bigly.


52 posted on 10/21/2016 6:17:58 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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To: bray

Much to their chagrin, even CNN’s ‘undecideds’ focus group broke well in favor of Trump after the 3rd debate. Each time with an ‘undecided’ group, he’s either been well ahead or slightly ahead. I don’t think she’s been ahead once yet.

Let’s face it, she’s not likable and her policies and record stink. Their only hope is to make him as unpopular as she is, viz, homophobic, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, islamophobic, blah blah blah. None of which things he was known to be prior to announcing as a Republican for the presidency.


53 posted on 10/21/2016 6:25:21 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: RoseofTexas

Trump had a great line for the bitch at the dinner last night.

“There must be 1000 people here” looks at the bitch and says “this is the biggest turnout of the campaign for you”


54 posted on 10/21/2016 6:28:54 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: Olog-hai
I am well pleased with such numbers 3 weeks out, and when combined with other large more favorable polls, the trend is most certainly favorable.

Especially given all the shit they have been slinging.

Media, Wall St., Republicans, Democrats and the entirety of the US Congress...not to mention the millions of government workers...are either apoplectic with fear, or stupid.

We are on the cusp of a revolution but the established order sees it as the sacking of Rome.

55 posted on 10/21/2016 6:34:18 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: atc23
Mrs Clinton has peaked at about 35% if you take out the oversampling of rats. I figure Trump is actually up by 8-11%.

Since the fate of Western Civilization is at stake, I'm hopelessly hoping Johnson or Stein will see the handwriting on the wall, drop out and throw their support to Trump.

56 posted on 10/21/2016 6:46:42 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: goldstategop

At this point everything has backfired since the release of the tape where he talked about p*ssy.


57 posted on 10/21/2016 6:51:23 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: arthurus
More professional voters have to be hired.

True indeed. But the fraud that is really undermining the integrity of this election is already occurring. The 100% partisanship in the media. The one-sided ambush debates. The state-sponsored violence at the Trump rallies. The sabotage of the GOP's democratically elected candidate by the mostly unelected leaders of the GOP establishment.

Even if Trump genuinely gets fewer votes than Clinton on election day I can not see this election as in any way fair. The Establishment is attempting a "media coup" as certainly as General Pinochet and his crew effected a "military coup."

I reject the moral legitimacy of either type of regime.

58 posted on 10/21/2016 7:01:25 PM PDT by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: Olog-hai
Every week I hear that Trump has gained on Hillary, but she always seems to be 4pts ahead!

I think they just readjust the Democrats being polled to keep her ahead.

59 posted on 10/21/2016 7:08:45 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: cardinal4
They are of their father the devil.
60 posted on 10/21/2016 7:09:04 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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