Latest polls have Democrats in a panic

The Sun Sentinel ^ | May 25, 2016 | Doyle McManus

[2ndDivisionVet]

emocrats hoped this presidential election would be a cakewalk. In their eyes, the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, spent most of the spring alienating big chunks of the electorate, beginning with women. Meanwhile, the presumptive Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, has run a careful, well-funded, well-honed campaign. What could go wrong?

And yet, in a spate of reputable surveys Trump has suddenly erased the advantage Clinton had held all year. The average of major polls compiled by the website RealClearPolitics shows the two candidates tied with 43 percent each. In at least three polls, Trump has even pulled ahead by a slim margin. That's been enough to send some Democrats into a swivet. But they shouldn't panic.

First of all, polls in May don't have much predictive value about an election that's more than five months away.

Four years ago, in May 2012, Mitt Romney was tied with President Obama in the RealClearPolitics average, just as Trump and Clinton are tied today. In November, Romney lost by 4 percentage points.

In May 2008, John McCain was only a little behind Obama, according to the same index. In November, McCain lost by 7 percentage points....

[Mr Rogers]

Whatever Trump’s faults - and I’m not a fan - he won’t make the mistake of praising Hillary and saying she’d make a fine President. He may have done that 8 years ago, but he sure as heck won’t do it in 2016!

Unlike Pansy McCain...

[SunLakesJeff]

The rest are always a tease but go D in the end.

I admit I do not know how many of those states have gubernatorial and Senatorial races.

OH and VA are both "purple", as are states such as FL, GA, NC. I think, hope, and pray 2016 is a wipeout by the time polls close on the West Coast.

[Oatka]

The RATS are never in a panic — they know that they can always depend on the fourth branch of government, the MSM.

Bumper sticker seen: "The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column".

[Covenantor]

Bumper sticker seen: "The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column"

Care to guess how many current students would consider that bumper sticker as just another Common Core arithmetic problem?

[trebb]

First of all, polls in May don't have much predictive value about an election that's more than five months away.

But the polls from months ago, that showed her beating Trump were used like a club - Hillary is toast and if they bypass Bernie for Biden or someone else, they risk their own bout of anarchy on the plantation.

[RayChuang88]

Here's what happened: Hillary Clinton has suddenly become a scandal magnet again. Whitewater, the mysterious deaths of Vince Foster and Ron Brown, the highly questionable fundraising of the late 1990's, the HIGHLY suspicious finances of the Clinton Foundation, the Benghazi debacle, her illegal use of a private email server, and on and on....

[353FMG]

How many people in Amerika know what a “fifth column” mean?

[Oatka]

How many people in Amerika know what a “fifth column” mean?

As someone else mentioned, most probably think it has something to do with Common Core math.