Posted on 08/23/2017 12:47:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Less than two weeks before Election Day, Hillary Clinton held a clear lead in the polls and it looked like her campaign was trying to run up the score — just as the race was about to turn upside down.
At 12:37 p.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 28 — with 12 days left in the election — the campaign blasted out an advisory to reporters announcing that the former secretary of state would be campaigning in reliably Republican Arizona, a move that suggested her team was gunning to compete in states well beyond the battlegrounds they needed for victory against GOP nominee Donald Trump.
They had every right to be confident.
The RealClearPolitics polling average from the day before showed Clinton leading Trump nationally by nearly six points (for perspective, Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by four points in 2012). State polls had Clinton ahead in key battlegrounds like Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Even the data team doing analytics for the Trump campaign was telling reporters that, as of Oct. 27, they had just a 15 percent chance of winning.
All this was happening while early voting was taking place in states across the country.
In retrospect, however, the race was never as stable as it appeared. A contest featuring the two most unpopular candidates in modern presidential campaign history made the political terrain unstable — and more susceptible to sudden shifts.
And the ground began to move under the Clinton team’s feet just 20 minutes after its Arizona announcement, with a tweet from Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who said the FBI was looking at Clinton’s emails — again.....
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Didn’t stun me.
NBC speaks for the nation now ?
Too funny! At least we can laugh at the fools!
12 Days that Stunned the MEDIA, perhaps.
#4-EXACTLY!
I wasn’t stunned at all-I was howling with glee for days...
She lost because she sided with foreign criminals against the citizens.
More excuse making from NBC can’t hide the fact Hillary Clinton was the worst candidate the Democrats nominated for president in decades. She also ran of the worst presidential campaigns in history too!
Ahhhh....
Like Washington crossing the Delaware with the British Unaware and winning the battle of Trenton.
The first in a long line of victories which will lead to us winning this war for the restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic.
12 days that SAVED the nation
Stuned?
I was elated.
Corrupt Clintion Chi-Com Crime syndicate lost.
Boo Hoo
Ah have been smiling so widely for sooo long, all the muscles on mah face are hurtin’ ....
She Never had a clear lead in the polls. The polls were rigged in her favor. Trump also won the popular vote including some electoral votes when the illegal votes are removed. So far, there has been 3.5 million estimated illegal votes accounted for. Ca alone had 11 counties with more votes than eligible voters, some at around 130-144%...
If you want to learn the ‘how’, ‘what’ or ‘why’ about anything, don’t go to NBC.
Maybe Bieber was stuned, but not me.......................
I was stunned that it pleased me.
“Stunned a Nation”
Which nation? PRC? NoKo?
They couldn’t cheat enough for her to win.
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