Posted on 10/28/2020 6:15:30 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
Two-and-a-half weeks before the 2016 presidential election, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump trailed behind Democrat Hillary Clinton by an average of 6% in national polls, a statistic that buoyed Clinton supporters, yet failed to rattle diehard supporters of Trump...
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Then, there was the final debate, then the one year tally on the hostage crisis,then Reagan surged and in the final poll (again, Gallup I think) he led by three.
However....Reagan won by TEN.
And of course this article is from late October 2016 and the "fact checkers" are doing their very best to distinguish what happened with Reagan from what was soon to happen with Trump....they desperately wanted 1980 not to be repeated, and well, while not as dramatically decisive, in terms of shock value and result, well, it did.
And now here we are, late October 2020.
The needle is moving from Biden and moving away fast because despite the MSM/social media blackout, word is getting out on his flagrant treasonous corruption.
As the final week of Reagan/Carter showed, there can be big moves in the last few days and we are seeing that now.
Biden's corruption may well turn this into 1984 :). That's the hope anyway
Again.....let’s not forget that Reagan ran seven points ahead of his final polling numbers.
And he absolutely crushed Mondale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What did the polls say about that race?
yah, good question. let me see what I can dig up...
fun fact....Walter Mondale is the only person to lose an election in all 50 states....
And that was back in the day when the polls were much more honest than today, FWIW.
seems that Gallup actually got 1984 right, pretty well spot on
I remember 1980, and there was no indication, at least according to the MSM at the time, that Reagan would win in a landslide.
Yeah, he just got the date wrong.
Mondale won Minnesota (barely) and DC in 1984.
agreed....I did remember thinking, “Reagan might actually win!”
lol, wow understatement!
oops - I misunderstood what you were talking about- I saw “1984” and thought ‘Orwell’.
Mondale carried Massachusetts. :(
Minnesota.
This is true, but keep in mind that early voting and vote-by-mail made up a very small portion of total ballots back then. And this year thanks to a huge media push for it and the conveniently timed Chinese virus we are seeing more of it than in even 2016. Record breaking numbers. I believe this shift to a month-long election is intentionally designed to work against the best interests of this nation.
I’m in Massachusetts. I remember bumper stickers after the election — “Don’t blame me — I’m from Massachusetts!”
They do their post election analysis and then they make up a story. Truth is probably closer to, Reagan was always up by about 10. Plus, its not the final polls its how they shape the debate throughout the year, especially these days where the issues aren’t the topic,the polls are
There was no social media either. Americans vote for someone not against someone.
agreed...different world
and perhaps that is why Gallup opted out of presidential polls, at least for a while?
but all of that contributes to the accurate suspicion that all of us have of media “polls”
and why I am (as of today...) believing my eyes and ears, and not the media numbers....
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