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Donald Trump Is Not Beating Hillary Clinton In The Polls, No Matter How Many Times He Says It
Washington Post ^ | March 24, 2015 | Philip Bump

Posted on 03/25/2016 3:32:35 PM PDT by Steelfish

Donald Trump Is Not Beating Hillary Clinton In The Polls, No Matter How Many Times He Says It

By Philip Bump March 24

Donald Trump legitimately does not care about what polls actually say; he cares about what he can say about the polls.

He likes to talk about polls because polls are usually pretty good for him, at least since last July when he stormed into the lead in the Republican field. Polls serve as validation for his dominance, and so he talks about them as a slightly more subtle way of calling himself a winner. Last September, he suggested that he put so much weight on the polls that if his support started to crumble, he’d drop out. Obviously that didn't happen.

There’s one set of polling that Trump likes to talk about, though, that is at odds with this pattern. Trump frequently talks and tweets about how polls show him beating Hillary Clinton, when in fact polls almost always show the exact opposite.

Since Jan. 1 of this year, Trump has led in only five of 39 polls, including only two of the 16 that used live callers.

Since voting began, Trump has beaten Clinton in precisely one of the 29 polls that have been conducted.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1cubanmistresscrisis; 2016election; clinton; districtofcolumbia; fishrot; philipbump; polls; trump; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Steelfish
If this nation chooses Hillary over Donald Trump in a general election matchup, I'll have to see it to believe it. I'm certainly not going to run like a coward from the opportunity.

Citing the feeble Establishment/Media propaganda (a.k.a. "push polls") as a source for the American People to get their voting advice?

It also sounds like something an Establishment water-carrier would do.

You see, the Establishment knows that these figures aren't likely to stay where they are over time. If they really wanted Hillary to face Trump, they'd instead bury such information.

So, tell us, Steelfish, why do you think the Mass Media is pushing such stories? If Donald Trump will be so easy to beat for Hillary, why wouldn't the Hillary-loving Mass Media STFU and let it happen, thus easily putting her in the White House?

Makes one wonder, eh, Steelfish?

I await your answer.

Meanwhile, I say "bring it on". It'll be a clarifying moment for those of us who wanted the Revolution to be bloodless.

If it has to be the other kind as a result of Hillary being elected and the Establishment staying in power, then so be it.

So keep trying to win friends and influence people with your sh!t propaganda, you Establishment water-boy, you...

41 posted on 03/25/2016 3:48:19 PM PDT by sargon (Go, Trump, Go!)
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To: euram
Ted Cruz less than 20% of the GOP Primary Vote in Florida, Virginia and Ohio is beating Hillary.

YEB BUSH can't beat her losing those States

42 posted on 03/25/2016 3:49:02 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: Steelfish

VOTE FOR THE WINNER! VOTE TRUMP!


43 posted on 03/25/2016 3:49:03 PM PDT by WVKayaker (What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate -D.Trump)
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To: Steelfish

Polls said Carter trounced Reagan.

Pollsters Lie.

I have a B. S. in Statistics and much experience in forming surveys.

I believe no surveys, especially ones formed by the establishment which is in cahoots with the MSM.

Name me a poll that isn’t.


44 posted on 03/25/2016 3:49:26 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Trump is the ticket or the republic ends.)
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To: RginTN
Trump’s a sniveling coward...voters don’t like sniveling cowards

I'm guessing your gender isn't the only thing you're confused about.
45 posted on 03/25/2016 3:49:54 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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To: VanDeKoik

1) it’s inconvenient
2) it’s inconvenient
3) it’s inconvenien


1) Demographics
2) Obama has a 50% JAR
3) No gas lines, Iran Hostage crisis, double digit inflation
4 )People just don’t like Trump outside the Trump Bubble. Nobody disliked Reagan. They just weren’t convinced in March of 1980 if he would be a better replacement

So continue to live in the Trump bubble were a 50 state landslide awaits...rofl

Even those of us who back Cruz understands he would have an uphill battle in the general


46 posted on 03/25/2016 3:50:24 PM PDT by LMAO (I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
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To: Steelfish

He’s going to get creamed. Could lose every state, which would make Hillary the new George Washington since Washington is the only President who had a unanimous electoral college vote.


47 posted on 03/25/2016 3:50:38 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Starstruck

10 debates wasn’t enough? By my reckoning, it was about 8 too many.


48 posted on 03/25/2016 3:52:29 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Steelfish

Good to see that the compost cares so much about the Republicans. Look how they are trying to help us pick the best candidate to beat Hitlery.


49 posted on 03/25/2016 3:52:55 PM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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To: sargon

Do you have a poll that’s taken outside the Trump bubble to prove Steelfish wrong or is all you got is name calling?

Maybe you can get a Twitter account and tweet all day like your boy....lol


50 posted on 03/25/2016 3:53:02 PM PDT by LMAO (I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
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To: reaganaut

Cruz won’t beat her. Trump may or may not beat her, but he is our best bet to win this year. Suck it up.


I agree Cruz won’t beat her. Trump will.


51 posted on 03/25/2016 3:53:05 PM PDT by calisurfer
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Hillary Clinton Is Not Beating Donald Trump In The Polls, No Matter How Many Times Cruzbots Regurgitate the Topic on FR


52 posted on 03/25/2016 3:53:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Steelfish

#scumbagtrump will beat her in the tabloids!


53 posted on 03/25/2016 3:54:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Brilliant

He’s going to get creamed. Could lose every state, which would make Hillary the new George Washington since Washington is the only President who had a unanimous electoral college vote.


I don’t know if I’d go that far.
She’ll probably carry Obamas states


54 posted on 03/25/2016 3:54:36 PM PDT by LMAO (I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
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To: Steelfish
"For the sake of the nation, Trump needs to suspend his campaign. "

Echoing Hillary.

will not let you make a lot of friends here.

55 posted on 03/25/2016 3:54:39 PM PDT by capt. norm (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat!)
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To: DesertRhino
Everyone knows that a nutty unstable grandma is just what the country wants

My prediction - It is possible that she gets charged for her felonies. A long shot - but possible.

In comes The Squaw. The every 4 year voters are that dumb, the Squaw will win. (will be positioned as a cross between Hitlery and Bernie).

56 posted on 03/25/2016 3:55:57 PM PDT by llevrok (To liberals, Treason Is the New Patriotism)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“I don’t see how Cruz can get enough cross-over voters to win,”

I don’t see it either. Trump has the best chance with his Regan style coalition.


57 posted on 03/25/2016 3:56:05 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SunkenCiv

Clinton Is Not Beating Donald Trump In The Polls, No Matter How Many Times Cruzbots Regurgitate the Topic on FR


Great

You should be able to prove the OP wrong with a counter poll, then...right?

And I mean something more than “everyone I know is voting for Trump.”


58 posted on 03/25/2016 3:57:21 PM PDT by LMAO (I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
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To: Steelfish

Will you still be coming in here after Trump wins the election????


59 posted on 03/25/2016 3:57:24 PM PDT by JBW1949
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To: Steelfish

and i dont care how often the D-party-mouthpiece Wash Post... prints this same BS

Trump will THUMP Hillary!

Hillary’s got more baggage than American Airlines, and Trump will expose all of it!


60 posted on 03/25/2016 3:58:05 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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