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AP FACT CHECK: No 'landslide' election win for Trump
The Associated Press ^
| Dec. 12, 2016
| JIM DRINKARD
Posted on 12/12/2016 10:36:58 AM PST by mdittmar
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To: Fresh Wind
AP = Absolute Propaganda
Perfect and worth repeating, just keep referring the MSM as the original FAKE news agencies. The other fake news sites only learned from the best.
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posted on
12/12/2016 10:57:32 AM PST
by
Coffee_drinker
(The best defense is a strong preemptive strike.)
To: mdittmar
To: mdittmar
AP = Always Propaganda.
Trump won 2700 counties to Hitler’s 500.
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posted on
12/12/2016 10:58:29 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
To: mdittmar
If HilLIARy had won with the EXACT SAME numbers, they would have been hailing this as a win of epic proportions, and proof she had a mandate to do whatever the hell she wanted.
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posted on
12/12/2016 10:58:40 AM PST
by
Mr. K
( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
To: mdittmar
In terms of the numbers, it wasn’t a big win mostly because the Democrat lost, where it would’ve been considered a landslide for being over 300.
In terms of ACTUAL LAND MASS, you can see what color the map was slidng to.
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posted on
12/12/2016 10:59:00 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: mdittmar
If the roles were reversed and Hillary! had won with Trump’s exact numbers, the AP wouldn’t stop cheering Hillary’s “landslide” for days!
To: mdittmar
Fake fact checkers from a fake news front group.
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:00:24 AM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: mdittmar
Trump 57
Obama 61/62
VERY similar
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:00:58 AM PST
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: mdittmar
These people are literally setting us up for a civic war. How foolish.
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:01:01 AM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Paladin2
“306 is not a landslide by historical standards. Its darn good though. Way more than close.”
It’s a landslide when you are given a 10-15% chance of winning.
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:01:02 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Too. Much. Winning.)
To: mdittmar
These people are literally setting us up for a civil war. How foolish.
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:01:07 AM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: DoughtyOne
68 EV is the difference.
In other words, Hillary could have won Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky and she still would have LOST.
(disclaimer, I didn’t actually add those EV up.)
To: mdittmar
The AP is communist pravda propaganda for the sheep of this stupid society.
To: mdittmar
Claiming a landslide is a political move, just like claiming a mandate. This is not a fact that can be checked, it is the opening move of a political pitch to get his agenda passed through Congress and embraced by the voters.
The AP seems to think that Trump should roll over and not pursue the agenda he ran on.
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:06:01 AM PST
by
drop 50 and fire for effect
("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
To: mdittmar
I remember well how the Ass. Press did a thorough fact check of every one of Obama’s utterances and Hillary Clinton’s statements.
Since Obama is known to be an habitual liar, and since Hillary Clinton is, per George Will, a “congenital liar”,
Oh, wait, no I don’t.
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:07:21 AM PST
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Thank you for the correction.
This was more of an estimate than a solid figure. 68? 70? The valid point is that this was not a near miss for Clinton.
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:07:33 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
To: mdittmar
"The final Electoral College margin was Trump 306, Clinton 232, for a winning percentage of just under 57 percent. That ranks this year's outcome as the 13th-closest of the 58 presidential elections in U.S. history, according to a tally by Claremont McKenna College political scientist John Pitney."Which just goes to show you that "political scientists" aren't really scientists (and AP writers for that matter seem to have never taken Sophomore math): (((306-232)/232))*100)= 31.8%.
In other words, Donald Trump crushed Hillary by close to 32%. Not even close, OK?
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:09:50 AM PST
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
No Bayesian logic on this....
Best to stick with simple objective data.
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:10:02 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: RC one
I’ll give you a literal Landslide.....
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:10:42 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: bert
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posted on
12/12/2016 11:11:39 AM PST
by
max americana
(For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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