Posted on 09/06/2016 9:38:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
THE MORNING PLUM:
A batch of new polls suggests the race is tightening, which means the “Trump can really win” dirge is at full blast this morning. We’ll get to the details in a moment. But first, here are a few simple ways to keep yourself from losing your mind in the race’s home stretch, which we have officially entered, now that Labor Day is behind us:
Stick to the polling averages. Surprising poll results can either be outliers, or can reflect statistical noise or short term fluctuations. Fortunately, we have a remedy for this: The polling averages, which have massive samples that cover longer periods of time and help screen out the noise. Depending on who is doing the averaging, Clinton is up by three (The Upshot), four (Real Clear Politics), or five (Huffpollster). As the Huffpollster team puts it: “Not a single poll included in HuffPost’s average has had Trump ahead since late July. Historical precedent suggests that bodes well for her.”
That means she is still favored. This doesn’t mean Trump can’t catch up or that the race isn’t tightening — or that he can’t win. He can win. The race is tightening. But he hasn’t caught up yet....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The tightening polls represent the reality that more and more Americans are coming to realize that Hillary Clinton is inherently dishonest, shamelessly corrupt, impaired and dishonest. Decent Americans are slowly realizing that they cannot vote in any manner that would result in her becoming the President of the United States.
WashPost is spinning Hillary’s free fall.
It kills them to admit Trump will likely win.
Just ignore the polls if they don’t come out the way you want them to...
Pathetic.
Keep an eye on college educated whites. Some of the new polling out today shows that Trump continues to dramatically under-perform previous Republican candidates among this key demographic, which will put even more pressure on him to run up improbably huge margins and turnout among blue collar whites.>>> Trumps direct appeals to the black vote in each city from here on out will help add to this demographic for trump
Yeah sure.
Hey, Greg - if Hillary is still favored, why isn’t she up by double digits?
And why do only 35% of the voters trust her?
There is a limit to spin.
Hitlery STILL has a chance...there’s some VERY powerful cough syrup out there!!! (Of course she’ll be like “WHOA, hey my fella Americans.....how’re you all doin’ out there, baaaaabes? I am like.... STONED, man! Wooooo!!!” /s;)
He has caught up with her and passed her!
Regardless it takes the race card out and beats Hillary Clinton over the head with it - yahoo and Amen.
The polls always shift more towards reality, as the months draw nearer to election day. There’s probably even an old saying for the tactic in the polling business.
More people want a free America than a controlled tyranny. Where’s the panic in that except to members of the uni-party establishment? It’s time for an exit to the leftists like this ridiculous author and editorial staff. It’s time for war — at the ballot box and on our knees.
“Stick to the polling averages. “
Because they are averages of OLD polls that don’t reflect the current trends in the election and include BOGUS slanted polls that help Hillary LOOK better when in reality she will LOSE in a LANDSLIDE!
GO TRUMP!
It’s one of the great weaknesses of the left. In “their” journals, classrooms, and meetings, they assume that they are only talking amongst themselves.
As a result, people on the right understand the left, but people on the left do not have a commensurate understanding of the right.
Single women too - another reliably liberal demographic.
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