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Data source: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/01/crowd-size-matters-trump-is-right-it-was-huge/
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.....
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
In October she was going to community colleges in Democrat strongholds.
In short: post primary, shortly before election day, and she’s using captive audiences to shore up her base. It was easy to see she was in trouble.
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Data source: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/01/crowd-size-matters-trump-is-right-it-was-huge/
Between 9 and 10pm on election eve were the most catastrophic hours in modern political history, as the entire Clinton machine came crashing down.
Excuse me? Trump's popularity was off the charts. He routinely packed rally venues that held tens of thousands, all across the country.
Meanwhile, Grandma Pickles could hardly draw flies to her 'rallies'. There isn't a single photo online of her standing before a packed arena. Mostly, she spoke before crowds numbering dozens of people, in high school gymnasiums.
All this transpired in front of the world less than a year ago, and the ministry of truth is already re-writing history.
NBC= Nothing But Crap.
LOL hilarious!
Sorry about that. A little crude, no doubt.
None of this gets old. None of it.
I was not stunned. I was very happy : )
By now the Clintons would have looted and wrecked the country and started more wars around the world in an effort to shakedown the countries for more money.
Her husband ran on a moderate platform that appealed to moderate Democrats like myself. He was likable.
Hillary was none of those things. No wonder she lost. She didn’t have that “wow” factor.
Even Democrats couldn’t stand her. Why are people stunned?
Great post. Election night was glorious. We were expecting and prepared for a Trump victory. I bought 2 bottles of champagne the weekend before the election.
Hah! I treated it like a schadenfreude advent calendar - each day was like a new treat. :-)
12 Days That Stunned The Nation???
Or 12 Days That Stunned The Media??
Or 12 Days That Stunned The Liberals???
was the entire nation really stunned, just because the media in the New York/Washington axis were stunned???
Sometimes I watch election night coverage to see their reactions to calling state after state for Trump, and eventually the election.
I was not stunned. Elections have consequences. Winning!!!
JoMa
I think that episode was the deal breaker for many.
It certainly was the turning point. It likely happened many times before judging from her team's response. It also showed that she is clearly unfit to receive that 3 AM call.
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