[2ndDivisionVet]

They must be scratching their heads. The English love the Clintons.

[Turbo Pig]

US election: Why has Trump caught Clinton in the polls?

Alex, what is "because she's a lying, conniving, hypocritical hag, who reminds every guy of their ex-wife, and who's cackle sends shivers up most peoples backs"?

[ctdonath2]

At this point, the Clintons are the closest we have to royalty - something the English are fond of, and still don’t realize a substantial fraction of Americans hate to the point of preferring revolutionary war.

[inkfarmer]

US election: Why has Trump caught Clinton in the polls?

Uh.. Because he was never behind to begin with?

[Bobalu]

[Bobalu]

[RayChuang88]

Easy: Hillary Clinton has become a scandal magnet again. The report on Hillary's private email server and soon revelations about the Clinton Foundation is going to make her reach for a headache remedy really fast....

[Billthedrill]

There has been a steady decline in British media understanding of American politics over several decades now. In the long-past glory days of The Economist one might well get a more in-depth analysis there than anywhere in the popular U.S. media, and now it is wandering around rudderless and the Beeb, never at the forefront of the effort, is just about useless. I'm only guessing, but that seems to track with the wave of political correctness that has smothered current European intellectual life and threatens to do the same here.

There is this, however - somebody apparently knows that something unusual is happening:

But here's where we cut-and-paste those words of caution in every Trump polling story published since last autumn. The normal political rules don't seem to apply to the man. Just because things have happened one way in the past doesn't mean they will play out that way this time.

And here's where the analysis fails: the zeitgeist isn't a function of Trump, it's Trump that is a function of the zeitgeist, and if it weren't he, we'd be looking around for somebody else similarly anti-establishment. It's really very simple: the country is fed up with the establishment, with the political correctness, with the powers that be, and that includes the media commentariat and the parasitical class of "experts" who are apparently too thick to realize that they are not managing the problem, they are the problem. If this sounds like shades of Ronald Reagan, that isn't accidental.

Maybe it's just the fish not noticing the water. Maybe it's the mood the country was in in 1775 that everybody thought was just another little temper tantrum. Whatever it is, the media don't appear to be getting it and watching them flounder is becoming part of the fun.

[pepsi_junkie]

US election: Why has Trump caught Clinton in the polls?

Easy one. Because the GOP has a candidate this time that actually wants to win and is trying to do so. In other words, voters have a reason to go with their gut and abandon Hillary which was not the case months ago when it looked like it would be Jeb.

[Will88]

In other words, polls this far out from election day - particularly when one of the primary races is settled and the other isn't - aren't particularly good indicators of election-day outcomes.

Lol, true enough, but few in the MSM were making that point when polls showed Hillary and Bernie both defeating Trump by double digits, and even Kasich faring better in a general election than Trump.