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To: IBD editorial writer

But according to CBS he is down 9 points and according to them, no cadidate has ever made up that much ground to win.

IT’ THE MSM’S LATEST DIRTY TRICK!!!!


106 posted on 10/19/2016 8:09:42 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Crucial
"But according to CBS he is down 9 points and according to them, no cadidate has ever made up that much ground to win."

Wrong. Wrong! WRONG! They're just lazy and/or stupid, parroting disinformation from the DNC:

"In a Gallup poll on October 26th in 1980, two weeks before the election, Gallup had it Jimmy Carter 47, Ronald Reagan 39."

And THAT happened long before everybody and his grandmother went wireless.

I just look at the top half-dozen or so polls based on their 2012 performance, and discard the rest as noise.

But it isn't that Trump needs to "make up ground". The issue is that almost all pollsters are bad at what they do.

If Gallup, a firm that has polled presidential elections successfully since 1936 gave up after 2012, I'm skeptical that newcomers using the same 1936 polling techniques can provide accurate estimates in 2016.

107 posted on 10/20/2016 4:48:31 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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