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struggle4progress

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Sun May 7, 2017, 04:15 PM May 2017

Should be afraid of lousy poll showing

Albert R. Hunt

President Donald Trump has the lowest poll standing of any new president at the 100-day mark, while his core supporters are holding firm ...

... the opposition may be more passionate than his base supporters ...

The Trump camp disputes surveys showing his poor ratings. John McLaughlin, who polled for Trump last year, recently wrote that there's a "partisan bias" to media polls. Others say Trump's negative poll numbers are no more reliable than the pre-election media polls last November that were supposedly far off the mark.

That's a canard. The NBC/Wall Street Journal, CBS/New York Times and ABC/Washington Post final polls all showed Hillary Clinton winning by four percentage points. The Bloomberg poll, which I directed, had her winning by slightly less than three points. While losing in the Electoral College, she won the national popular vote by 2.1 percentage points, within all the polls' margin of sampling error ...


http://www.smh.com.au/world/trump-should-be-afraid-of-his-lousy-poll-showing-20170507-gvzx3a.html

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Should be afraid of lousy poll showing (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2017 OP
Learn from this article. Lakoff: start with truth, note the lie, end with truth sharedvalues May 2017 #1
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