Posted on 05/14/2020 12:41:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
CNN put out a new poll on Thursday that shows President Trump is crushing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in key battleground states — but the liberal “news” network downplayed that finding to the point of hilarity.
“CNN Poll: Biden tops Trump nationwide, but battlegrounds tilt Trump,” said the headline.
“Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump now stands at five points, but Trump has an edge in the critical battleground states that could decide the electoral college, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
“Could”? Uh, does. The popular vote across the country doesn’t matter. What decides election is the Electoral College vote (remember when all the pollsters said Hillary Clinton was going to bash Trump in 2016, but he won the EC vote 304-227? Yeah, we do, too).
“In the new poll, 51% of registered voters nationwide back Biden, while 46% say they prefer Trump, while in the battlegrounds, 52% favor Trump and 45% Biden,” said the piece.
Huh. The battleground states. Aren’t those the states that decide every presidential election?
So what were the battleground states in the CNN poll? Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico and North Carolina.
Is that all?
That’s 15 states. In Electoral College votes:
That’s 186 electoral votes, well more than half of the 270 needed to win the White House.
Of course, no one is saying that Trump will win all those states, but it’s just interesting that CNN downplayed the findings of its own poll.
“A review of transcripts found that only one CNN program on Wednesday mentioned the poll of registered voters that indicating 52 percent favor Trump, as opposed to 45 percent for Biden, in key battleground states,” Fox News reported.
“CNN Buries Its Own Poll Results on Trump’s Favorability. Guess Why,” Kyle Smith wrote at National Review.
CNN seemed oddly unenthused about its own poll. And the story to which the homepage linked doesn’t mention that Trump had never scored higher in a CNN poll. True, there are lots of noisy data in the piece, most of which cut against Trump. But on the other hand the single most surprising and hence most newsworthy detail of the poll was that Trump holds a seven-point lead over Biden in the battleground states. The CNN story doesn’t even tell us what that figure is — seven points seems like a pretty big number — and downplays its own finding by noting, “Given the small sample size in that subset of voters, it is difficult to determine with certainty whether the movement is significant or a fluke of random sampling.”
“The story to which the homepage linked doesn’t mention that Trump had never scored higher in a CNN poll,” Smith wrote.
CNN also buried another key finding: THe youth ain’t flocking toward the 77-year-old marblemouthed Biden.
“Though other recent polling has shown some signs of concern for Biden among younger voters and strength among older ones, few have pegged the race as this close among younger voters,” CNN wrote. “The results suggest that younger voters in the battleground states are tilted in favor of Trump, a stark change from the last CNN poll in which battleground voters were analyzed in March[.]”
CNN conducted its poll between May 7-10 with 1,112 adults, including 1,001 registered voters and 583 voters in those 15 battleground states. The margin of error is 3.7 points.
Toss in the rest of the South, Texas, WY, ID, Neb, ND, SD, etc., more electoral votes. Yeah, Hillary won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote. That will probably happen here as Dumbnuts will win NY and CA, OR, WA state, the more populous west coast, maybe even NV, CO, is AZ in ours still or has the illegals vote pushed them blue? But, those draw Trump close to the finishing line.
We NEED the House back and keep the Senate.
I see the following SURE wins for Democrats in November AT MOST:
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Delaware
Massachusetts
Vermont
Maine
Rhode Island
Maryland
DC
California
Oregon
Washington
Illinois
The rest, even Virginia, Minnesota and New Hampshire, are winnable for Trump.
The WH is a done deal. We need Congress. But let’s turn our trust away form man and onto God.
Let’s pray faith-filled prayers believing that the same Divine Providence of God Almighty who miraculously birthed this nation that wasn’t supposed to be birthed, will restore our Free Constitutional Republic that isn’t supposed to be restored.
There is no way that this nation is 75%, heck even 15% are TRUE BELIEVING Christians!! The things I see from true Christians, that the real, true believing Christians in this nation is more like 8 or 9%!! That is a massive turn away from God by a nation that once called it a nation UNDER God!!! God has removed His hedge of protection from us. He has dropped that vail of delusion upon all those who do not believe. Those that have had the opportunity to believe and have pushed it aside, will not get another chance.
The delusion has been dropped. Unless this nation has a new, total turn around, it is over. I know people here laugh at that, but that does not mean it is not true. THAT is the sad part. Unbelief. It was back in the Israelites times, and it is now. Even with all the knowledge of God and His plan for us, unbelief is destroying people and their lives.
No, I see no comeback for America. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY nothing in the Bible concerning a western power during the final days. None. That means something is going to happen to America, and maybe in the near future. I am not saying tomorrow or next week or even five years from now, but we are in the season of these changes the Holy Bible speaks of. It IS coming. If they do not believe it, they don't at their own peril. If they don't believe it is true, they had better be right, or they will see a hell like no other hell that has ever hit this world. This virus mess is NOTHING compared to what is coming one day upon this earth. The only word I can use, is sad. Unbelief is killing mankind. Just sad, when it is all free. Free for the asking. Ask God to forgive your sins and you are forgiven. Nothing else. Nothing!! Just believe by faith. That is all.
God is saying to his people...
Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness covers the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord arises on you, And His glory is seen upon you.Isaiah 60:1-2.
If you keep your eyes on the Lord and his light and don't obsess over the darkness, your eyes of faith may see differently.
My eyes are always on the LORD. I don’t take my mind, heart, or soul off eternity. This place is not my home, I am just passing through. Scripture tells us that life is just a vapor, gone in a whiff. I look up every day expecting the Harpazo. That is my blessed home and it is what I am looking for. I have lost a lot of friends in the past few years. I have a couple of guys from church that have just been told they have cancer, one whom has hospice on his case now. He found out he was stage four about the same minute they told him he had cancer in his lyophobes (did I spell that right??) and bones. He only has a couple of weeks at most. It gets harder every day watching these good friends lives slipping away, but we have to have faith in God’s plans for our lives. Its tough. But, one day I expect to cross that divide and go home. I look forward to it. I am not afraid of it. Its God’s plan for all of us who believe. And, I believe.
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