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12 Days That Stunned a Nation: How Hillary Clinton Lost
NBC News ^ | August 23, 2017 | Mark Murray

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016; hillary; trump
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1 posted on 08/23/2017 12:47:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Didn’t stun me.

NBC speaks for the nation now ?


2 posted on 08/23/2017 12:49:07 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too funny! At least we can laugh at the fools!


3 posted on 08/23/2017 12:49:33 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

12 Days that Stunned the MEDIA, perhaps.


4 posted on 08/23/2017 12:49:47 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: ponygirl

#4-EXACTLY!


5 posted on 08/23/2017 12:50:34 PM PDT by donozark (JAMES COMEY: Democrat Presidential candidate 2020.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wasn’t stunned at all-I was howling with glee for days...


6 posted on 08/23/2017 12:50:59 PM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She lost because she sided with foreign criminals against the citizens.


7 posted on 08/23/2017 12:51:00 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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!


8 posted on 08/23/2017 12:51:10 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


9 posted on 08/23/2017 12:51:31 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: dowcaet

12 days that SAVED the nation


10 posted on 08/23/2017 12:52:03 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stuned?

I was elated.

Corrupt Clintion Chi-Com Crime syndicate lost.

Boo Hoo


11 posted on 08/23/2017 12:52:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect
12 posted on 08/23/2017 12:52:27 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Ah have been smiling so widely for sooo long, all the muscles on mah face are hurtin’ ....


13 posted on 08/23/2017 12:52:36 PM PDT by IWontSubmit (2)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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%...


14 posted on 08/23/2017 12:52:53 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you want to learn the ‘how’, ‘what’ or ‘why’ about anything, don’t go to NBC.


15 posted on 08/23/2017 12:53:18 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe Bieber was stuned, but not me.......................


16 posted on 08/23/2017 12:53:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Col Frank Slade

I was stunned that it pleased me.


17 posted on 08/23/2017 12:54:00 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Stunned a Nation”

Which nation? PRC? NoKo?


18 posted on 08/23/2017 12:54:02 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They couldn’t cheat enough for her to win.


19 posted on 08/23/2017 12:54:15 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
12 Days That Stunned a Nation: How Hillary Clinton Losert Fixed it. She is the sorest loser of them all.
20 posted on 08/23/2017 12:54:26 PM PDT by DannyTN
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