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To: Lakeside Granny

Media saying that no one has come back to win, when they were behind in the polls four weeks out.

I’m sure this is not true.


64 posted on 10/14/2016 8:00:15 AM PDT by nikos1121 (I am way more deplorable than you.)
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To: NIKK

The New York Times verified this poll,

Ronald Reagan trailed President Jimmy Carter 47 percent to 39 percent in a survey completed on Oct. 26, 1980.


66 posted on 10/14/2016 8:04:21 AM PDT by nikos1121 (I am way more deplorable than you.)
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To: nikos1121
The assumption is that polls are accurate. They may have been more accurate in the past. But recent history (2012 onward) tells a different story. And since 2012, their accuracy has been getting progressively worse. There is a reason the historically prominent polling companies (Gallup, Harris etc) no longer conduct national election polls. They realized it's no longer really possible. When the response rate to pollsters has gone from 80% to 10% in just a few years, the methodology behind collecting polling data must change. With the exception of...wait for it...the LA Times poll, Rasmussen and PPD, the other polling companies really haven't changed.

Is this just wishful thinking since most of the mainstream polls have Trump behind? Possibly, except look at the facts of recent polling history. They do not support the accuracy of traditional polling. Just the opposite.

68 posted on 10/14/2016 8:10:03 AM PDT by Rokke
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To: nikos1121

If Trump can get his air game moving in these last weeks and push out the truth the MSM won’t talk about then I think we’ll see the national polls begin to move.

I watch each rally and say there’s no way he can lose but with the MSM, RNC and GOPe against us I fear it’s a very steep hill to conquer. Going directly to the people via the rally seems to be working as the numbers keep going up but the message needs to get out via traditional methods as well in order to reach all the LIV who only get there news from CNN etc.

For now he’s accomplished that via the debates so we’ll just have to see if he can close the deal on the 19th.


72 posted on 10/14/2016 8:19:16 AM PDT by astrodude
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