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“Trump knows how to close a sale.”

True, but I don’t think that is what is happening with the polls.

I think the pollsters and pundits are shifting their alliegence from Hillary to their own self interest in the final weeks of the campaign.

Throughout most of the campaign, they can use the polls, and their talking heads to create the psychological meme of a foregone conclusion for the democrat. This is done both to suppress Trump votes by making his supporters feel hopeless, and by signaling to “sports fan voters” who like to go with the winning team, that Trump is not the winner.

This technique has been used successfully to create a self fulfilling prophecy, and even if it does not succeed, and the republican wins, the media has not sacrificed credibility, since they can’t be reasonably expected to predict outcomes months in to the future, and won’t be held accountable for being wrong.

However, if this is indeed what is happening (the media has been pushing a narrative of foregone conclusion), then what they would naturally do in the final weeks, is abruptly abandon that strategy, and begin to publish honest predictions of what they truly believe will happen.

It wouldn’t happen over night, because there is a bandwagon effect, when one pollster jumps ship, the others realize it is happening, there is s chain reaction over a period of days.

I think this is what we are seeing - at least I hope so - indications that Trump has been doing well all along, and the leftist media is finally being forced to report it.

Trump has run an amazing campaign from the beginning. His instincts to fight back, to earn the reputation of being a politically incorrect unvarnished truth teller, to push back hard against the media, to brand the system as rigged, etc. - all flawless.

Most of all, his instict to run as an unapologetic conservative openly pro Christian, pro life, pro guns, pro military, pro business, America first. I don’t think anyone really thought that could ever work again with today’s demographics, but Trump is proving it can.

I’m not taking anything away from his ability to close the deal either, he is doing everything right.

BUT....

I don’t think the surge in the polls is his doing, it is just the pollsters and media throwing in the towell - like rats scurrying off the ship just before it sinks.