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, hed drop out. Obviously that didn't happen.
Theres 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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Shoo, troll.
I hardly think that President Regan had so many sleezy nut jobs in his “coalition”.
"Boob bait for bubbas", in other words.
So just admit that you're citing propaganda and be done with it.
No voter should be making decisions based on Mass Media/Establishment push polls, wouldn't you agree?
Oh, I get it. You don't agree because their propaganda needs and your propaganda needs overlap.
In other words, when it comes to attacking Donald Trump, if you can't do it on policy or personality, just use clumsy propaganda by prognosticating on hypothetical events over 6 months in the future.
LOL!
Got it...
Which polls are we talking about? The ones that call between 9 AM and 5 PM when all they get for responders are stay-at-home do-nothings?
The Trump haters are beating the Trumpster and the Cruze haters are beating Cruze...........
Hillary Clinton and the DNC are laughing all the way to the election.........
This poll isn’t why FReepers oppose Trump. They oppose him because they are GOP establishment supporters. I’m tired of their charade. While we want an anti-establishment voter revolution, they seek to protect their phony balony jobs. Makes me sick.
Blind faith won’t cut it.
So, the polls are not relevant to anything.
So by Hillary's reckoning maybe 1 debate is too many. Maybe Trump will say something offensive and she will refuse to appear with him. Her supporters will say the same thing as Trump supporters said when he didn't show. "Good for him/her!"
Not saying Trump is Reagan. If polls this far out were meaningful, we’d be enduring President Romney instead of enduring President Obama.
Yea right, Steel doesn't work for free.
Trumpkins? Good thing Cruz people are “the adults in the room”. That’s what pushes me to Trump.
Not a problem.
It's not like we have to imagine a scenario where our candidate can get more votes in a national popularity contest than DONALD TRUMP!
If Trump wins the nomination (God forbid) I’ll be voting Trump
Plenty of folks hated Reagan and blamed him for 1976.
Polls 7 months ahead of the general election, and before even the conventions, are worthless, except as propaganda tools.
“Boob bait for bubbas”, in other words.
So just admit that you’re citing propaganda and be done with it.
No voter should be making decisions based on Mass Media/Establishment push polls, wouldn’t you agree?
Oh, I get it. You don’t agree because their propaganda needs and your propaganda needs overlap.
In other words, when it comes to attacking Donald Trump, if you can’t do it on policy or personality, just use clumsy propaganda by prognosticating on hypothetical events over 6 months in the future.
LOL!
Got it...
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Polls taken now are do not reflect what will happen in Nov. Or they could.
Having said that, cite me a poll that shows Trump beating Clinton. A poll outside your Amen Trump bubble
I know you can’t . So go ahead and put your finger in your ears and shut your eyes and tell yourself he’s beating Clinton and the polls, why, they’re all propaganda
I’ll give you a while to find them.
And good luck with your search
Got it?;)
I set a wager, I wager Hillary to set up anywhere in America a stadium and in only a 48 hour notice to see how many show up, same for Trump.
Do it in at least 6 states.
I rest my case.
make up your mind. Are they Trumpkins or Trumplestilskins?
Conservatives are so f’n stupid. Cruz and his group of self righteous right wing preachers of perfect people who have never made a mistake in heir lives..who judge everybody. They will never vote Trump. Most trumpers like myself wont vote Cruz///
So meanwhile the establishment plants a story and it it is probably true..but who cares.. and Trump and Cruz are at each others throats..while Rove laughs his ass off at all of us cause they want Hillary president..
Trump will have the most delegates..fact..period.Cruz has no shot in a convention. They will laugh at him and throw him under the bus. It’s Trump/Cruz or a Hillary presidency and that is the bottom line. Cruz will never get votes outside the hardcore right wing..ever..so stop the bs on both sides..join up and say f u to Karl Rove
I find it almost funny, the way the Republican candidates and the party faithful have found ways to engineer a defeat this fall
At this time last year, no one would have imagined with that dream field of candidates that by early spring 2016, Hillary would have such a commanding lead, the GOP could only pray for an indictment to give them a prayer in November.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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