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Nate Silver Explains How MSM Helped Hillary Lose Election
NewsBusters ^ | February 7, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 02/07/2017 7:25:30 PM PST by PJ-Comix

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To: PJ-Comix
This is akin to trying to explain how a 28 to 3 lead ends up in a final score loss of 34 to 28.

It's called "BLOWING" it.

41 posted on 02/07/2017 8:39:10 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: PJ-Comix

They’re still trying to deflect the real source of the problem, the CANDIDATE!


42 posted on 02/07/2017 8:49:18 PM PST by matthew fuller (Democrats have not been this apoplectic since Republican Lincoln emancipated THEIR slaves.)
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To: gaijin

I waited hours in a cold dark fairground in va on a Sunday night. He was three hours late. The place was packed he took the stage after midnight. That was part of his marathon weekend before the election. I got home at 3:00am. There were people who drove from neighboring states. No telling when they got home. Somehow with all the media there that night it never was reported.


43 posted on 02/07/2017 8:49:39 PM PST by cnsmom (csmom)
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To: PJ-Comix

Personally, I blame the pickles!


44 posted on 02/07/2017 9:11:41 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: MHT

Yeah they cancelled the rally in WI and instead went to MI because their data showed that WI was now safe and a sure thing; they ran the #’s and even they couldn’t believe it but when they ran them again it was true. I remember here a lot of folks were panicked, thinking that meant WI was lost and that’s why Trump was headed for MI, to try to make up for it, and how futile it all was. But he went to MI cause they knew they could, and would, take it.


45 posted on 02/07/2017 9:11:42 PM PST by Obsidian
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To: PJ-Comix

Your Silver ware is tarnished, HIllaryous Rotten Criminal. Get lost Gnat.


46 posted on 02/07/2017 9:12:50 PM PST by PGalt (HOORAY President Donald J. Trump)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Apparently, Hillary and her campaign were confident and smug enough, that they stopped doing their own internal polling for like a week before Election Day, and instead relied entirely on the media/public polls. Big mistake!


47 posted on 02/07/2017 9:13:21 PM PST by Obsidian
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To: PJ-Comix

Worse, they had all her followers believing she would win and they still haven’t gotten over the shock of her losing, and the kookiest among them continues to protest and riot to this day. Had they had any sense that she might lose, I think the situation of anger and hostility would not be what it is today.


48 posted on 02/07/2017 9:16:48 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: TakebackGOP
I’m shocked Trump didn’t win the official popular vote

Well, if you discount the several million illegitimate votes....HE DID.

49 posted on 02/07/2017 9:37:10 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Why did the supposedly data-savvy Clinton campaign make these mistakes? Perhaps because they’re easy mistakes to make. I’m sure that it had highly sophisticated forecasts and models of the campaign and has a rigorous understanding of concepts such as tipping-point states.

My theory is the 'fix was in' or was suppose to be - in places like PA with "Ed" Rendell knowing stings to pull. With polling missing the 'hidden' Trump vote, the 'fix' didn't take.

50 posted on 02/07/2017 10:13:13 PM PST by GOPJ ("CHRISTIAN BAN" DURING WORLD WAR II: GERMANS AND ITALIANS STOPPED FROM IMMIGRATING TO U.S.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Nate is having difficulty accepting his new-found irrelevance.....


51 posted on 02/07/2017 10:14:02 PM PST by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: Billthedrill
And the upshot was those bathetic scenes of shocked Hillary acolytes watching the returns in the arena, their candidate ensconced in a five-star hotel room, far too engaged in an alcoholic stupor to connect with the voter as she had been all along.

Ooh, ooh - that's some of the best written porn I've ever read - say it again! Say it again!

:-)

52 posted on 02/08/2017 3:07:00 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: Billthedrill

I agree with your assessment. The one interesting idea I took out of the article was ... on one hand, Trump campaign could do nothing right, according to MSM, so they didn’t care where they campaigned, they knew the NYT would say it was wrong, stupid and showed their campaign was doomed.

On the other hand, because Clinton campaign wanted and enjoyed their slavish media support, they tended not to go into (or campaign or rally) in states that would have raised “uh-ohs” by the media. States such as Wi, Pa, Iowa, Mi, etc. Obviously states that turned everything around for Trump. So in a bizarre, non-intuitive way, the media made it easier for Trump to do whatever he thought he needed to do, while restricting Hillary to stay out of the questionable states.

Also, in a general way the MSM hurt Hillary on election night, I believe, because or their over the top fake polling that showed Hillary with 5 or 8 or 12 point leads nationally and similar leads in most battlegrounds. I believe many Hillary supporters, and Hillary leaners (same people now rioting in streets) didn’t bother to vote, because Hillary had it “in the bag.”


53 posted on 02/08/2017 4:23:11 AM PST by JohnEBoy
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To: PJ-Comix
stooopid cow bought into it's own hype...
54 posted on 02/08/2017 4:33:11 AM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: PJ-Comix

All losses all failures all shortfalls can be easily explained on natie’s fantasy Island. How about this: People where and are sick of socialism and Trump was never actually behind except in the minds of those who hate and fear him - who by the way were very right about fearing him.


55 posted on 02/08/2017 5:53:27 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: UB355
First election in Wisconsin requiring photo ID
Wow. Somehow I had missed that fact. It seems to have made a big difference.
56 posted on 02/08/2017 6:03:04 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: ZOOKER

I remember Soros saying Hillary would win but that Trump might win the popular vote.


57 posted on 02/08/2017 6:25:26 AM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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