[laconic]

As crappy and biased as it is, even The Washington Post gives Clinton only a FOUR point lead over Trump this morning. A 46-34 skewed sample for Obama over Romney?? 12 points??? As far as I remember, Obama beat Romney by what, 3 or 3.5 points? Why would a “polling” entity skew the results so badly to reflect an 8 to 9 percent tilt to one candidate? There are consumer protection laws against this - its called calibrating your weight machine to cheat the customer.

[floozy22]

In just now looking at some other mainstream polls, Clinton has a 4-6 point lead in most. I listen to the radio a lot during the day, and the news segments on the stations always seem to emphasize the polls showing the 9 to 11- point Clinton leads.

So my argument doesn't hold as it would pertain to polling, but candidate Clinton has made public comments about Russian hackers disrupting this election. Since she never does anything without an ulterior political motive, she has the "Russian hacking" meme to fall back on.