Posted on 08/05/2016 7:50:02 AM PDT by seastay
A raft of new national and battleground polls released Thursday found Donald Trump slipping well behind Hillary Clinton one week after the end of the Democratic convention, and as the Republican nominee reels from a public feud with the parents of a slain Muslim American soldier.
"There has clearly been a significant movement toward Clinton in the last week," said Ken Goldstein, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and polling analyst for Bloomberg Politics. "Some of it is a Clinton post-convention bounce, but more of it seems to be a Trump deflation or implosion."
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A NBC/Wall Street Journal national survey found Trump trailing Clinton by 9 points (up from five points last month).
Ayres cautioned that polls at this juncture early may yet be fluid.
"The general rule is that you wait a couple of weeks after both conventions finish. Before you start assuming that polls are particularly predictive," he said. "Around the middle of August we'll start to get a sense of where the race stands after the dust settles from the Democratic convention and the Trump convention."
Goldstein said polling averages are more instructive than any one poll, but that a steady Clinton lead of 7 or 8 points could harm Republicans down the ballot.
"Fifteen points is more than Ronald Reagan won in his landslide victories," he said. "If you're in a world where it's over 10, then this is a landslide of historic proportions."
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Baloney!
It's a media made non issue along the lines of Income Inequality, etc.
Don’t you believe it!
Yep, those trustworthy NBC pollsters got me so skeered I’m gonna stay home...
Really, this has been discussed here over and over. Is this “post the bogus poll stories day”??
It is a wise man who rules by the polls but a fool that is ruled by them.
It’s Goebbel’s propaganda being used by the MSM. Pure BS and I’m not buying it. It comes out of the RAT sewer to demoralize us.
YAWN , another day of these stupid posts
Cmon, people, if Trump were REALLY doing that poorly, the Media would be doing everything in their power to MAKE SURE HE STAYS IN THE RACE....open your damned eyes, they are trying to get him OUT of the race for a REASON!
Love that, going to tweet it to Trump.
Polls ‘change’ because the powerati says so. I believe this round of desperate manipulation of content count, mode of surveys, weighting and so on is just a symptom of a body politic in the last spasms of death.
I will crawl on my belly through a river of dead terrorists , dissemblers and broken glass to go vote for Donald J. Trump on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.
They can take that to the bank.
Trump cannot keep his big fat NYC mouth shut....he would rather whine than win.....typical NYpunk
And there is always the wild card of the second installment of Wikileaks promised by Assange.
I don’t believe it for a second. Hillary has been stuffing her rallies with pod Astro turf. Trump - people wait in lines for hours to see the guy. I call BS on all these “polls”
It’s a sophisticated PsyOps operation to demoralize Trump voters and keep them at home.
Sadly, it may work.
You haven’t seen panic and skewed polls yet if Ryan gets taken out Tuesday.
Yep, nothing biased here.
To be immediately hidden/debunked by the Monica Media.
*paid. Paid AstroTurf. iPhone spell check strikes again.
Another phoney alert! Deep trouble. Panicking. Scandal. Death. Destruction. Mayhem. Blood. Sorrow. Sadness. Pain. Polls. Polls. Oh!! Lol.
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