I don’t think Trump was ever behind throughout most of the campaign. The reason for this is the over-the-top near hysterical media attacks on Trump. If he was REALLY behind by as much as they always claimed, they wouldn’t have appeared and acted much more confident.
“McLaughlin said that most pollsters made the mistake of looking at the 2016 election “like through a rearview mirror.”
I guess most of us here on FR are smarter than most of the pollsters. We new that you could not use the 2012 data and predict the outcome of the 2016 election.
-PJ
Plus The Royal Idiot added his (cough) “community organizer” genius to the losing mix.
Obama sucked up to the Castros which queered Fla’s Cuban vote, of all places....the state Hillary really needed to win.
But then again, he always put his community organizer genius to work.
Remember when he sued banks for not giving mortgages to ne’er do wells who could not possibly pay it back.
Then, as president, he sued banks for burdening ne’er do ells w/ mortgages they could not possibly pay back.
A few days before the election there was a poll showing Hillary beating Trump by 11 points in NH.
Real Clear Politics used that poll.
Nate Silver used that poll.
This was the worst, most corrupt polling effort by the media in my lifetime.
Trump won because he was the better candidate. Period.
If he was behind by internal polling at the end than maybe the FBI announcement/political ploy did end up having a real impact. There should have been these types of questions on the exit surveys.
Too funny. The MSM lied to make it look like Trump trailed Hillary thinking it would help her... and it helped Trump instead. Karma.
McLaughlin is exactly correct, but there is one reason that he didn’t mention for expediency. The Democrats believed all their own slanted polls and slanted media pundits. If they thought that Trump had a real chance to win they would have cheated more in the critical states. As it was they still received at least 5 million fraudulent votes, but a couple million votes from non-citizens in California and a couple million more from non-citizens in New York didn’t have an impact on the electoral college.
They will not make that mistake again. If steps are not taken before the next federal election by congress, the president and a conservative Supreme Court to assure the legitimacy of the vote they will win every other election from now through eternity.
he was never behind.
He was never behind, they still don’t get it
Okay,
The whole Question of WHY Or HOW is
of no consequence.
It is What the Definition of “IS”,is.
Get It,IS!
TRUMP IS.
When I coached ice hockey, I always told my kids to play as if they were one goal behind, no matter what the scoreboard said. It took awhile, but eventually the message sank in.
Last Sunday, didn't Trump hold rallies in 5 different cities ending the last one after midnight? He strikes me as being the real and true energizer bunny...just keeps going.
The two best lines are at the end:
[Hillary] “always had the majority of Americans wanting to vote against her,”
“McLaughlin added that Trump’s team focused on voters who did not want four more years of Obama but were not yet supporting Trump. And ultimately that strategy reached out to a Rustbelt voter and a Sunbelt voter and combined them....”
That doesn't strike me as a well thought out statement.
Hmm, no, I think Hillary was a much bigger behind.
Peach