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'professional politicians take polls very seriously, foreign governments judge the power of the American president on the basis of these polls, and no one but no one takes his polls more personally and more seriously than does Donald Trump himself.'
Please. Professional politicians aren't MENSA, but they're bright enough to figure out that polls have become wildly, stupidly inaccurate. They grasp, for example, that Hillary, after being given a 98% chance of winning on election eve, is not POTUS.
Professional pols also grasp the huge rallies Trump to this day enjoys. They understand that none of them--not one--can get 10,000+ people to wait in line for hours just to hear them speak.
I've read quotes from multiple prominent politicians saying they are terrified to cross Trump because his supporters are so rabidly loyal. If you were not so dedicated to fake polls, you could do a few simple internet searches and read these same quotes.
Ditto foreign governments. They probably understand even better than the parasites in DC what a joke polls have become. Your premise assumes that foreign govs operate on a ~80/room-₩00temperature IQ, but they don't. They can see the gap between polls and reality; it's not rocket science.
You need to leave the last decade behind. Polls are no longer revered. Reality has smacked these polls hard in the face. The most they possibly amount to these days is balm and salve for Trump Haters.
Let that sink in.
let this sink in:
The Korean War had seesawed back and forth for 2 1/2 years and finally had ground itself into a bloody intractable stalemate when Eisenhower was sworn in in 1953. His single admonition to the Koreans, their co-belligerents the Chinese and to the Russians was enigmatic: "I shall go to Korea."
Such was the prestige of America's war hero, a five-star general, the supreme Allied Commander in Europe, the former commander of NATO, the man who had vanquished Hitler was such that a armistice was quickly agreed to by adversaries who had been utterly unmovable for years. The carnage ended and the American death toll halted at about 33,000.
Moral of the story: the prestige and credibility of the commander-in-chief of the United States of America matters very much.
You need to leave the last decade behind. Polls are no longer revered. Reality has smacked these polls hard in the face. The most they possibly amount to these days is balm and salve for Trump Haters. You could not be more appallingly misinformed. The contrary is true. I suggest you Google:
polls + data mining + M I T
Jared Kushner + polls + data mining