Posted on 10/13/2016 3:48:48 PM PDT by Zakeet
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has increased to seven points, as more than half of voters say he is not qualified to be president.
That’s according to a just-released national Fox News Poll of likely voters.
Clinton receives 45 percent to Trump’s 38 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson is at 7 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein gets 3 percent. Last week, Clinton was up by two points in the four-way contest (44-42 percent).
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I’m not a sunshine cheerleader & I’ve always said that this is going to be a close election, but I’m simply not going to take a D+9 or a D+11 poll seriously.
The article states that it was D+4 last time. Not sure sure where the D+2 is from?
I was just attempting to watch Fox News. All doom and gloom spin towards Trump, according to the talking heads. Fox has become darn near unwatchable—not fair and balanced, anymore. Roger Ailes is missed.
A big bash party on megyn kelly’s show tonight. I knew it’d be bad when they put that snot nosed Ben Shapiro on. I can’t believe I used to like his articles. Ugh!
These polls. All of them are horrid. I hope you are right. I can’t believe voters are going to turn the country over to her. The Supreme Court alone should result in trump winning.
Checked in briefly. Katrina Pierson awesome.
She’s always great. I hope she gets a job somewhere in the administration.
I stopped watching BOR when he said Hillary was up big in FOX Poll & he’ll have a Pollster on + watching Megyn has become tedious, she keeps on covering all these bad news for TRUMP BS, guess I’ll switch back to Hannity at 10 pm!!
Fox now along with some of the other polls seem to be using a little polling dipsy-doodle that I think I first heard during the last cycle in 2012 - the argument goes that since the pollsters can’t accurately predict the real turnout patterns D-R-I in coming elections, they will accept whatever breakdown in the numbers they get in whatever samples they take; since the numbers of D’s, R’s and I’s rise and fall during the election season along with voting patterns as fortunes of the candidates rise and fall, they claim that however their responders identify themselves at the time the poll is taken is the way they should be counted in the finished poll - thus by referring to the responders as “self-identified” they imply a validity which in fact is not there - samples may be skewed in all sorts of ways, from time of day calls are made to cooperativeness of the responders - taking what ever they get as the true measure of the underlying voting population instead of adjusting for probable voting patterns is just one more way to lie......
In addition to not trusting these media polls, you also can't trust the media articles about the polls. You have to read the actual poll report. In the link below, go to page 22.
https://fnn.app.box.com/s/6pmpss5plc034omim5mh0xe5d29601sm
On another note...I live in Colorado and tonight have seen two Trump TV ads in the space of an hour. They were both excellent.
These are simply nothing more than attempts to influence and weak-minded voters, as well as allowing the media an opportunity to make themselves feel momentarily correct in the face of an oncoming Trump presidency.
Thanks... just what we need.. Colorado is winnable! Much easier than VA!
Gotchya. I figured they could at least get that right
With TRUMP in this race how can IDIOT posters have anything with a D+ sample? It should be at least an R+2 sample!!!
ALL of the polls are fake. They are trying to set expectations so that, when Shrillary steals the presidency, people will think it’s a legit win. Don’t fall for it. Sign up for some vacation time for just after the election. We’ll all need to be in the streets to set this right.
I’m sticking with my call that Clinton will have 350 EVs.
Wow. What a surrender monkey you are. With Republican attitudes like this: is it any wonder the GOP has been Obama’s doormat for 8 years? Remind me to never support a candidate you prefer.
As long as the Republicans unite behind Paul Ryan’s leadership and keep hold of the congress we should be OK.
LOL. Good one. Now I can see you are trolling us. Got me.
What are the internals of this poll?
The media is full of lies.
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