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Proud liberal 80

(4,167 posts)
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 08:52 AM Oct 2016

ABC News tracking poll

Seems more realistic now. Clinton's support hasn't really eroded, trump has just gotten support from people who were going to vote for him anyway. Thr republican nominee will always get 44-45% of the vote regardless of who he or she is.

But I hate how it plays into the "trump is closing the gap" memo:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ppollingnumbers

His team will now sight this poll, and ignore the IBD poll that going in the opposite direction.

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ABC News tracking poll (Original Post) Proud liberal 80 Oct 2016 OP
Pretty much in line with the media helping him with their coverage this week Thrill Oct 2016 #1
no Loki Liesmith Oct 2016 #2
Thanks Obamacare lame54 Oct 2016 #3

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)
2. no
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 09:33 AM
Oct 2016

There were two huge days of depressed Trump voter excitement. They just dropped off. It was an outlier result. This is a regression to the mean.

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