Here is how I think the race stands right now. I think OR, CO, WI, VA and maybe NJ, CT, ME could come into play if Hillary starts a slide. But either way all Trump has to do is flip PA, OH, FL and he gets to 273 EV's!
Posted on 08/07/2016 5:02:27 PM PDT by Angels27
They're not exactly the Nixon era "silent majority," but both Republican and Democratic pollsters claim that there is a secret vote for Donald Trump showing up in some polls.
The Trump campaign on Sunday stated flatly there is a "big hidden Trump vote" in the nation.
And during the recent Democratic convention, a top pollster agreed, saying there is a "secret Trump vote."
Longtime Republican pollster and Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway explained on the Today show that the hidden vote is seen when anonymous online polls are compared to phone call interview polls where people have to be more public in stating who they support.
For example, the new Reuters poll had Trump and Hillary Clinton just three points apart, where others that are phone survey based out Sunday showed a greater gap.
"The Reuters poll, which is an online poll, where Donald Trump is three points behind Hillary Clinton nationally, and I think that the important point to note there is that when you have online polls as opposed to telephone polls, Mr. Trump tends to do better, and that's because the online polls approximate the ballot box, where you're issuing your vote privately," she said.
"We think there's a big hidden Trump vote in this country," said Conway, who added that Trump internal polls project "tighter" results in battleground states.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It’s top secret. The Russians did it.
Yep. People who will vote for Trump just aren’t telling anyone about it to avoid the grief they’ll get from friends, relatives, co-workers and the like. Then, come Election Day, they’re going to stand up and be counted. Then the MSM (and especially Hillary) is gonna get a BIG surprise!
There’s an especially big conservative “hidden vote” this time around since the mainstream media is pulling every trick they can think of to hide as many of Trump’s voters as possible every time they take a poll.
Yep...I usually put political signs in my yard...this year I’m hesitant.
” Trump does three to nine points better than in telephone surveys. So it really does suggest that there is a secret vote for Donald Trump,” said Lake.”
I think the secret vote may be higher than three to nine percent. more like six to fifteen but that’s just what I see and I live near a military base
[I usually put political signs in my yard...this year I’m hesitant.]
Someone tore down the TRUMP sign on our block this morning.
Not only do many Trump supporters shy away from telling phone pollsters who they’re voting for, but they won’t even tell EXIT pollsters on election day. This will cause the ‘Rats to cry foul when the results come in and Trump wins in a landslide.
And some people (cough!) give pollster’s bogus info too.
Pollsters reputations are right there with all media right now. I for one would directly lie to just to screw them, and it is probably true for many others. The gig is up for those cheating SOBs.
Some folks were chatting about this, this morning before church services where I go (a Southern Baptist church).
I think it is the pragmatic vote people who are not being vocal about it because they are afraid of the criticism of the purity vote people. “Oh, I could NEVER vote for Donald Trump because he believes in this thing that is utterly contrary to my Christian principles.” No matter that Hillary is into the same thing even worse, whereas a Donald regime might actually give the objectionable principle a fair chance to die off through the popular will and his Supreme Court legacy.
When I walked out of the NY primary vote this year, some children were taking a poll and asked who I voted for. I told them Donald Trump. I thought the moms were going to kill me.
Check out Drudge to see how unfit Hillary is to even be running for president. The old sow looks to be in bad shape. Doubt she can campaign much longer.
And people are not just disgusted with Hillary, they’re pissed at the media covering for her, giving them two reasons to vote for Trump.
I’m thinking long time burly Dem union guys aren’t going to pull the lever for te Dyke and LGBT Party. But they can’t say it publicly.
I know it’s a term Nixon coined but silent majority.
100,000 voting age people sit out every Presidential election. If Trump can get 10% of them then he would win in Yuge landslide.
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