Posted on 11/06/2016 7:37:21 AM PST by LS
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Now, on to business.
Freepers Ravi and SpeedyinTexas have done a bang-up job tracking registrations and early votes in IA, FL, and NC. My unnamed friends in Dayton, OH have been very good about giving me inside data from OH.
Some time ago I predicted Trump would win OH, FL, IA, and NC. I think that's a given now. Pollster Richard Baris told him that Cankles' people privately told him NC was "gone." Yes, she's still in OH and FL, but I think these are more desperation efforts as she is literally now just one small state from being completely unable to win. NV, CO, MI, MN, VA, PA, WI, or any combo of those pretty much seals her doom, but of course we want them ALL.
Baris also confirmed today that his final weekend polling shows FL out of reach for her---as I said. My guys see it taking a miracle for her to win OH.
The early voting (EV) in NV is troubling in that Ds have about a 40,000 advantage---but overall it is down from 56% in 2012 to 52%, and the main thing (as in most of these states) is that we do not know how "independents" especially will vote. Most polls show Trump anywhere from 7 to 20 points up with indies. I tend to use about 10% as a yardstick. With that, and with just a small D crossover in NV, Trump will win there.
We have two polls that show antiTrump Rs/antiHillary Ds shaking out at between +5 Trump and +7 Trump. If that's the case, Trump would win PA, MI, VA, and probably MN.
A week ago, as some of you know, I got internals from Team Trump, with whom I've been in very close contact for two months. This comes from the very top. Those internals showed VERY close races in eight states, including MI, NM, PA, VA, CT, RI, OR, WI. All were very much within "turnout margin." Trump was up in some, down just 1-2 in others. I do not have an update on any of these except yesterday Trump's communications director said they were up in NM. This confirmed a report earlier in the week by Kellyanne Conway who said they were "tied" in NM and MI.
I've spoken with some R strategists in MI. This is very winnable and Trump is doing fantastic in Macomb Co., up double digits. He's down just single digits in Oakland. If Oakland can just be "managed," the north/west vote will outperform Wayne. Currently absentees from Wayne way off (-12%) so MI is looking very good. Again, apply the D/R crossover # above, and MI is quite possibly Trump's. This GOP source said that at the Macomb rally he'd "never seen so many blue collar Ds at a Republican rally."
PA appears tighter. Insiders say that Trump is up huge all over the state except Philly---even in Pitt---but the black vote in Philly is, based on performance everywhere else, likely to be down.
Currently in FL black vote is off 3, NC off by 4-6. These are astounding #s and mean that in FL Cankles will lose over 110,000 votes off Obama's total right there; in NC, closer to 200,000; and nationwide close to 1 million. Moreover, white votes are up everywhere, anywhere from 3-4% from 2012. Just to put that in perspective, the "Latino surge" in FL would have to be 40% HIGHER just to offset the white increase.
All these portend a very tight race in PA, VA, and possibly even WI. However, Team Trump pulled DT out of WI in favor of MN, where their internals show a very, very close race. As you know, he is up 12% in MN CD8, which no Republican has won.
If I had to guess, I'd say Trump wins MI, PA too close to call, we lose WI. Given the horrible polling record of VA, and the latest poll showing Trump +3 there, I have to think Trump also wins VA. The Nova districts are down (six of them) an average of 35% each, while southern/western VA (7 districts) were all up quite a bit in early voting. But VA doesn't do D/R ballots, so we have no way to really count by registration---which in large part is why polling there is so tough to confirm.
I think Trump has NM in a squeaker. CO too unpredictable to call. Rs lead early voting, but they led bigger in 2012 and lost. However, pot was on the ballot then, and isn't now. Moreover, most polls show "da yuts" are off by the same % as blacks, about -3%. Again, this is huge in places like CO. I can't call CO or NV now. There are indicators they could go either way.
NH was not on the "internals" list I saw, but four polls since then give Trump the lead there. I think it's likely in Trump's column, along with ME CD2.
Now, a few non-number/polling items. Slate has announced it will do "exit polling" reports all day on election day.
Of course, what this means is they will try to depress GOP turnout with false stories. REMEMBER 2004, when Drudge was running false exit polls and I told you at 4:00 pm after I did a key "poll flushing" at a battleground precinct that Bush won the election? THEY WILL LIE. You cannot get depressed about "exit lies."
A better barometer is obviously the election night calls. My prediction here is that they will DELIBERATELY delay any call for Trump until the last possible moment. In 2004, as Bill Sammon showed in his book "At Any Cost," the networks delayed all calls of Bush states up to FIVE TIMES as long as they called Gore states, when Bush had up to FIVE TIMES the margin of lead. In other words, if Bush was winning by 5 points in GA, they delayed it for an hour, while calling a Gore state with under 1% within 20 minutes.
THIS WILL HAPPEN. Probably the best indicator of a great Trump night is if, the minute after the polls close, they have NOT called VA, PA, and NH for Cankles. If these go 20 minutes with no call, Trump has likely won the election.
I remain confident, based on the USC Poll and PPD poll that Trump will win with about a 4-5% pop vote margin, will top 60m votes. I still think 300-320 EVs are entirely within reach.
If Cankles wins, we have all had the sad fortune of witnessing the last days of the greatest republic on earth.
Yes. I think it’s running nationally on the Sunday night football game. It’s hilarious!
This should have been running for months not just 2 days before the election!
Deep down, you know Mass is a lost cause.
(from Watertown)
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I did! It aired on Fox. Great stuff.
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Nice job LS. I still can’t tell what is happening in Washoe. None of it makes sense. Saw a state gop big shot at the gas station. He is cautiously optimistic. I asked about the internal polling and he said “Trump”. YMMV.
The number I heard was we can lose Oakland by 5%, but not more.
100% Agree. Win or loose this election is the best news America has heard in 50 years. I am ecstatic.
The only reason to despair if Clinton steals the election is if we believe that purpose of "conservatism" (whatever that means at this point) is to turn back the clock to a utopian past that never actually existed.
Western Civilization has hurdled down the wrong road since the late 19th century. Something like Clinton is the inevitable last stage of this process. They are desperately trying to hold onto ideas, money, and power that will soon be at an end no matter what they do. Trump has destroyed many of the illusions that even people like us had about our rotten and decaying system. Win or loose tomorrow there is no going back. Like John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry he is bringing on the crisis. Good.
Hillary Clinton is a right wing thug in the dictionary meaning of "right wing." She is the tool of the rich, the powerful, the privileged. She will ALWAYS serve such interests over those of the deluded poor they seduce into supporting them. The Democrats are a tent too big. A second "President Clinton" will be supremely vulnerable from the left.
The Future is about people like the Clintons, Wall Street, the Media and their like loosing power. The future is a radical future, a future of change. If we want values that we would call "conservative" "libertarian" or even "American" to predominate in what comes after we must fight to make them so.
Trump has already won this election even if he looses the vote. I have never felt better or more confident about the future than I do today. The battle lines are now clearly visible. The enemies of what is good and eternal are foolishly reshaping the existential battle field to favor us (or at least what we must and can become) and not them.
Bring it on....
Love your post! And, yes, bring it on!!!
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
I fell very good about the outcome. I’m cautiously optimistic about the election and confident that we are now decisively on the off ramp from the road to certain doom.
The off ramp undoubtedly leads to some very scary and uncertain times but that’s better than a future where we continue to make a virtue out of pouting and looking sad as everything we love just slowly fades away.
Okay, okay. Lock me in at 303.
So I went back and looked at your predictions and projections in 2008 and 2012. You were way off. You were pumping Ohio republican and Indy turnout back then as much as you’re pumping Florida now. You were certain Ohio was won both times. You were using the same inside info as well. In fact, at 6 pm on election night in 2008 you posted the media hadn’t tapped in to the reality that McCain was going to win the presidency.
I’m not suggesting you are doing anything wrong, but I doubt that you are being given good info by your sources.
I hope to God you are correct this time.
Please. Don’t follow me, don’t read my stuff. Just ignore me.
Course, then you would have thought you’d wake up to Pres. Kerry in 2004. But by all means, leave me alone.
That’s it? I post facts about your record in projecting elections and you just tell me to go away? I’m not intending to attack you, rather, I’m questioning your sources. Aren’t you a little upset that what you were given inaccurate info the last two elections? Shouldn’t that make you a bit skeptical about what you’re being told now? Shouldn’t you be a a little less bold in your prediction?
I want you to be correct, but I want to know what’s different now than in 2088 and 2012.
I also appreciate your stand against the idea that the election will be stolen through fraud.
The thing that I remember about the last bit in Ohio is that R’s voted for Obama. That won’t happen with Hillary unless R women loose their mind.
Why, oh why did your wife ever vote for 0bama?
Yes, I saw that one down here in South Florida. Pretty entertaining and effective.
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
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